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- Is there a proven way to test if Im susceptible to the placebo effect?
The placebo effect requires you to not know you're taking a placebo (patients in these studies are not told what it is about, they're just given pills injections etc ) I can't think of a way you could feasibly set up a scenario where you were A) testing yourself for "the placebo effect", and B) not aware you are being given a placebo
- When would a placebo control group *not* be used in medical research?
2 Related: Why use a placebo in some potential COVID-19 vaccine trials? What is the point of a placebo in studies where the subject can determine their group? The answers to the questions above give some very good reasons why a placebo or control group is necessary even when 'common sense' seems to indicate that it is not
- How do pharmaceutical companies deal with people who received a placebo?
However, in order for the study to stay blind so that long term effects can be observed, they cannot be told they received a placebo How do the pharmaceutical companies deal with this issue?
- What is the point of a placebo in studies where the subject can . . .
The placebo group also gets this therapy, in addition to their placebo drug E) The placebo choice is often selected to be something that does have some physical effect that isn't psychedelic in nature Niacin for example can cause some sort of tingling feeling
- placebo - Are there any apparent flaws in the methodology of Wilhelm et . . .
Wilhelm et al 2016 is a meta-analysis of 23 placebo controlled beta-blocker studies The attempt of the study was to indicate what fraction of the beta-blocker's effect was due to the placebo eff
- Do experimenters in clinical trials refuse to give a placebo to a . . .
On one hand, it would be unethical to give a placebo that a patient who might greatly suffer or die from a disease but on the other hand, refusing to put participants in poor condition in the placebo group would ruin the "random assignment" and maybe give biased results Generally, what do experimenters do in this situation?
- How does the placebo affect physical illnesses?
As a physicist, I was surprised by coming to realization that placebo can actually affect physical illnesses I searched on the internet, but explanations for mechanism of placebo were either uncle
- Are there actual cases where a placebo prescription or fake treatment . . .
Placebo prescriptions or fake treatments work for people who believe they are ill, and it can actually improve the patient's condition Are there actual cases where a placebo has improved the patie
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