In adolescent depression treatment, those who received a placebo but thought they received Prozac improved more than those who received the drug and knew it. By Peter Simons In a study of fluoxetine (Prozac) for adolescents, researchers found that the placebo effect predicted good outcomes, but the actual drug treatment did not. After accounting for...
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Blind ketamine study yields surprising placebo effect
By Paul McClure A new study into using ketamine to treat depression has yielded surprising results. Despite the unique way in which the researchers ensured the trial was ‘blind’, those who received a placebo had the same improvement in symptom severity as those administered the psychoactive drug. Clinical trials of psychoactive drugs like LSD, MDMA and...
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Study finds placebo effect also applies to exercise training
by University of Agder Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain You can get a better effect from your training if you believe that the training program you are following has been put together especially for you, according to Kolbjørn Andreas Lindberg, a research fellow at the University of Agder in Norway. “If you believe that the training program you are following...
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Placebo effect accounts for more than two-thirds of COVID-19 vaccine adverse events
by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center A medical assistant prepares a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine to be administered to a patient. Credit: Public domain image courtesy of Lisa Ferdinando, U.S. Department of Defense The placebo effect is the well-known phenomenon of a person’s physical or mental health improving after taking a treatment with no...
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Direct current to the brain’s right dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex found to enhance placebo effect
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University of Turin Medical School has found that applying direct current to the brain’s right dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex can enhance the placebo effect in patients. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,,...