Placebo and Nocebo Effects in Psychiatry and Beyond

Placebo and Nocebo Effects in Psychiatry and Beyond
Author: Paul Enck
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2020-10-08
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 2889660486

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Clinical Psychiatry: Placebo and Nocebo Effects

Clinical Psychiatry: Placebo and Nocebo Effects
Author: Rosio Allan
Publisher: American Medical Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-09-26
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

A placebo is anything that looks like a real medical treatment but is not, in reality. Placebos are medical substances that improve the health status of the person due to the patient's belief that the substance is indeed effective. The opposite of the placebo effect is the nocebo effect. A nocebo is a medical substance with no medical effects that worsens the health status of the person due to the patient's negative beliefs and expectations. In psychiatry, the placebo effect plays a significant role in the majority of mental disorders, including depression, anxiety, addictions, and schizophrenia. A few prominent symptoms of nocebo effect are nausea, itching, bloating and sleeping issues. This book is a compilation of the works of various international experts carrying out research with respect to placebos and nocebo, and their significance in clinical psychiatry. It is a vital tool for all researching or studying placebo and nocebo effects.

Placebo

Placebo
Author: Fabrizio Benedetti
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2014-10-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3662445190

Due to the recent explosion of placebo research at many levels the Editors believe that a volume on Placebo would be a good addition to the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology series. In particular, this volume will be built up on a meeting on Placebo which will be held in Tuebingen (Germany) in January 2013, and where the most prominent researchers in this field will present and exchange their ideas. The authors who will be invited to write chapters for this volume will be the very same speakers at this meeting, thus guaranteeing high standard and excellence in the topic that will be treated. The approach of the book is mainly pharmacological, including basic research and clinical trials, and the contents range from different medical conditions and systems, such as pain and the immune system, to different experimental approaches, like in vivo receptor binding and pharmacological/behavioral conditioning. Overall, the volume will give an idea of modern placebo research, of timely concepts in both experimental and clinical pharmacology, as well as of modern methods and tools in neuroscience.

Central Pain Syndrome

Central Pain Syndrome
Author: Sergio Canavero
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2007-01-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0521866928

A complete reference source on central pain.

Talking Cures and Placebo Effects

Talking Cures and Placebo Effects
Author: David A. Jopling
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2008-05-29
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199239509

Psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis have had to defend themselves from a barrage of criticisms throughout their history. In this book David Jopling argues that the changes achieved through therapy are really just functions of placebos that rally the mind's native healing powers. It is a bold new work that delivers yet another blow to Freud and his followers.

Placebo Effects: The Meaning of Care in Medicine

Placebo Effects: The Meaning of Care in Medicine
Author: Pekka Louhiala
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2020-03-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030273296

This book provides a perspective on the concepts placebo and placebo effects, which has been missing so far: a detailed analysis of the history of the terms, their current use, suggested alternatives and the implications of the conceptual confusion. Everybody knows something about placebos and placebo effects. If, however, people are asked to define the concepts, the spectrum becomes wide. Does 'placebo' refer to an inert treatment or does it cover all elements of the patient-physician-interaction except for pharmacological or other physiological mechanisms? Furthermore, if, by definition, a placebo has no effect, what sense does it make to talk about a 'placebo effect'? Even in scientific literature the concepts ‘placebo’ and ‘placebo effect’ are used in many senses and often in a confusing way. While this book discusses many issues which keep puzzling physicians, it also covers the historical developments of the concepts of placebo and placebo effect as well as the conceptual confusion in the definitions. This book is intended for physicians, philosophers, psychologists and any other people interested in placebos, placebo effects and the physician-patient relationship.

The Emperor's New Drugs

The Emperor's New Drugs
Author: Irving Kirsch
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2010-01-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0465021042

Do antidepressants work? Of course -- everyone knows it. Like his colleagues, Irving Kirsch, a researcher and clinical psychologist, for years referred patients to psychiatrists to have their depression treated with drugs before deciding to investigate for himself just how effective the drugs actually were. Over the course of the past fifteen years, however, Kirsch's research -- a thorough analysis of decades of Food and Drug Administration data -- has demonstrated that what everyone knew about antidepressants was wrong. Instead of treating depression with drugs, we've been treating it with suggestion. The Emperor's New Drugs makes an overwhelming case that what had seemed a cornerstone of psychiatric treatment is little more than a faulty consensus. But Kirsch does more than just criticize: he offers a path society can follow so that we stop popping pills and start proper treatment for depression.

Practical Psychopharmacology

Practical Psychopharmacology
Author: Joseph F. Goldberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 611
Release: 2021-04-29
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1108450741

A practical guide translating clinical trials findings, across major psychiatric disorders, to devise tailored, evidence-based treatments.

Can Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics Save the Future of Psychiatry?

Can Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics Save the Future of Psychiatry?
Author: A. George Awad
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2023-04-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1663252688

This book is the second of the series about the imperatives for the search for new psychiatry. As stated in my recent 2021 book about: The Search for New Psychiatry, current psychiatric practices have failed many: patients and their families, their doctors and the society at large. That was the end of the 2021 book and the beginning of this book as a follow up in search for pathways to a new and more effective science-based practice Based on its major contributions to the recent successful and expedient development of the Covid 19 vaccines, I am proposing the same pathway of using the new revolution in informatics as the way to save and secure the future of psychiatry and that is what I am recommending in this book reaping the benefit of AI and Big Data Analytics but with a wide open eye on its limits, reliability, risks, unforeseen or unintentional harms. Part Two of the book deals with a number of perineal and also new challenges that continue to require better understanding and resolution. Among the phenomenological and nosological challenges, the recent development by Neurology of its subspeciality of Behavioral Neurology in competition to Neuropsychiatry, is reviewed in terms of an opportunity for integration of the tow subspecialities towards the creation of a new third field of “Clinical Neurosciences”. Other challenges included are: The Subjective /Objective Dichotomy, Lunacy and the Moon- reflections on the interactions of the brain and environment and Woke Psychiatry, what is it? Several other clinical challenges include: The Past is Coming Back as The Future -The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Psychedelics, Loneliness as the silent disorder and several other challenges. At the end, a postscript has been hastily added in memory of a close friend, a pioneering psychopharmacologist but above all an empathic humanist, Professor Thomas Arthur Ban or as he always preferred, Tom.

Concepts and Principles of Pharmacology

Concepts and Principles of Pharmacology
Author: James E. Barrett
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2019-12-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3030353621

Celebrating 100 years of HEP, this volume will discuss key pharmacological discoveries and concepts of the past 100 years. These discoveries have dramatically changed the medical treatment paradigms of many diseases and these concepts have and will continue to shape discovery of new medicinies. Newly evolving technologies will similarly be discussed as they will shape the future of the pharmacology and, accordingly, medical therapy.