The Placebo Effect
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English - February 17, 2023 03:00 - 15 minutes - 21.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Mental Health health wellbeing medicine doctor care lifestyle medicine meaning behaviour change wisdom Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Most people have heard of the placebo effect but is it real and why does it occur?
In this episode I look at how placebos may exert their effects and some examples of where they have worked.
Is the placebo something that can be used to our advantage? And why do some people experience a nocebo?
Links:
Ted Kaptchuk and his work on placebo:
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2013/01/the-placebo-phenomenon
Mechanisms of the placebo effect: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513296/
Knee surgery (placebo as good as surgery): https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa013259
Placebo and treatment resistant depression: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2784479
Nocebo: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/science-blog/harmful-placebos
Balint and the doctor as a drug: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-power-rest/201103/the-doctor-is-drug?amp
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