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    The nocebo effect: According to the article, “What is a Placebo?” a nocebo effect is: “the opposite of the placebo effect - a negative psychological effect of a treatment with no pharmacologic activity. This can occur when the placebo is administered and accompanied by the suggestion that the patients’ ailment will get worse. High nocebo effects can also interfere with interpretation of clinical trial results. Negative effects of drugs may be due to psychological nocebo effects and not necessarily due to the drug itself.” (Anderson). In the Article “What’s a Placebo?”, it says that in clinical practices, physicians prescribe placebo treatments to patients whether they know it’s fake or if they don’t know it’s fake. Also, the article says: “Psychologically, the patient may be encouraged that they are receiving a treatment for their ailment that they believe will have beneficial effect, and in turn the placebo may actually provide some relief.”. It’s a temporary relief session…

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    live longer than their counterparts” (Musunuru). One problem that arises with this report is that the study was most definitely done to further the organization’s agenda and quite possibly the numbers (which were not present in Musunuru’s article) could have been fabricated. The statement practically reeks of pretentiousness and red wine. But by far, the most controversial point of Musunuru’s article was the mention of the dreaded “placebo effect.” The placebo effect is known to be a hoax to…

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    Ebola Pros And Cons

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    As medical technology’s improvement and consummation, people always want to find a best way to treat each of diseases, and some researchers are confident about that. Anyhow, we do admit that sometimes they really did what they wanted. Such as, many diseases can be controlled, or even cured now. Nonetheless, not all of illnesses, most of time we should say that researchers who are trying to find a best way to help people with diseases rather than to treat diseases. The most influential example is…

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    Benefit Of Placebo Effect

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    Benefits of the placebo effect The placebo effect is a very interesting area of study also called the placebo response. Where the subject is given a fake prescription, an inactive substance could often help subjects ' mental state because of the fact the subject would like it to help. The thing that a substantial segment of the examinations has alike is they won 't impact someone 's well-being. A person given such an ineffectual medication does often help the subject with their cognitive.…

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    When the active treatment in a medication is indeed beneficial to the patient, the added placebo effect is seen as a bonus to further alleviate symptoms. On the other hand, when a medication depends on the placebo effect as the main mode of relief, many ethical issues arise in terms of patient consent and knowledge. A further issue with the placebo phenomenon is its counterpart, the nocebo effect. This effect can increase negative implications on patient’s symptoms and can even create symptoms…

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    most citizens rudimentary understanding of psychology. Unfortunately, Americans (including myself prior to investigating this phenomenon further) appear completely oblivious to the placebo's equally consequential yet grossly underreported counterpart, the nocebo. Brian Resnick, a journalist for the primarily pop-culture / politically-oriented Vox, attempts to shine a light on the placebo's problematic foil. Resnick devotes a large portion of his op-ed to acclimating Vox's audience with the…

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    The Durability Myth

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    The mind is a complex machine which we have yet to fully discover. The average human brain weighs about three pounds and includes the immense cerebrum, which is the largest portion. The cerebrum is responsible for control of thoughts and voluntary movement. Then the brain stem is responsible for involuntary functions like heart rate and breathing. The brain represents only three percent of the body's weight yet it uses 20 percent of the body's energy (Stevenson, classroom lecture, 2016). In a…

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    I am truly fascinated by the human brain and I never knew the amount of research that goes into studying it. I was quite intrigued when reading about the placebo and the nocebo effect. I am amazed how strong the mind is and what its capable of. I was always under the impression that the placebo effect just meant that the person was just faking feeling the effects of the particular, drug when in fact the brain increases feel good neurotransmitters, like endorphins and dopamine, to greater…

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    As well as negative side effects it can also lead generally healthy people to believe they are ill and need long term medication. This negative response is known as the nocebo effect. This still leaves us with the question of who decides to give real medicine or a placebo therapy? Research has found that almost 97 percent of GPs have handed out placebos. "Most family doctors have given a placebo to at least one of their patients", BCC news stated. This was part of a survey taken in the UK on…

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    it’s in the patients’ minds, or the patients are just recovering on their own over time. While it’s true that a big part of the placebo effect takes place in the minds of patients, the physical and chemical changes are evident. The many experiments performed have shown that although not all people are affected by the placebo effect, the ones that are show significant changes in how they feel. A patient with an optimistic attitude and great expectations is much more susceptible to a placebo than…

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