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The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
Irving Kirsch

Meaning of "placebo effect" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PLACEBO EFFECT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PLACEBO EFFECT

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Placebo effect is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PLACEBO EFFECT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Placebo

A placebo [3][4] is a simulated or otherwise medically ineffectual treatment for a disease or other medical condition intended to deceive the recipient. Sometimes patients given a placebo treatment will have a perceived or actual improvement in a medical condition, a phenomenon commonly called the placebo effect. Placebo effect consists of several different effects woven together, and the methods of placebo administration may be as important as the administration itself.[5] In medical research, placebos are given as control treatments and depend on the use of measured suggestion. Common placebos include inert tablets, vehicle infusions, sham surgery,[6] and other procedures based on false information.[1] However, placebos may also have positive effect on a patient's subjective experience who knows that the given treatment is without any active drug, as compared with a control group who knowingly did not get a placebo.[7] Placebo effects are subject of recent scientific research aiming to understand underlying neurobiological mechanisms of action in pain relief, immunosupression, Parkinson disease and depression.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLACEBO EFFECT

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WORDS THAT END LIKE PLACEBO EFFECT

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Synonyms and antonyms of placebo effect in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «placebo effect» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PLACEBO EFFECT

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The translations of placebo effect from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «placebo effect» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

安慰剂效应
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

efecto placebo
570 millions of speakers

English

placebo effect
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

placebo प्रभाव
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تأثير الدواء الوهمي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

эффект плацебо
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

efeito placebo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্ল্যাসেবো প্রভাব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

effet placebo
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesan plasebo
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Placebo-Effekt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

プラシーボ効果
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

플라시보 효과
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Efek plasebo
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hiệu ứng giả dược
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மருந்துப்போலி விளைவு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्लाजॅबो प्रभाव
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

plasebo etkisi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

effetto placebo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

efekt placebo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ефект плацебо
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

efect placebo
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φαινόμενο placebo
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

placebo effek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

placeboeffekt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

placebo -effekten
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about placebo effect

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2 QUOTES WITH «PLACEBO EFFECT»

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Irving Kirsch
I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.
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Irving Kirsch
The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLACEBO EFFECT»

Discover the use of placebo effect in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to placebo effect and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Placebo Effect: An Interdisciplinary Exploration
This book is committed to a different perspective--namely, that the placebo effect is a "real" entity in its own right, one that has much to teach us about how symbols, settings, and human relationships literally get under our skin.
Anne Harrington, 1999
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The Placebo Effect
Decker Roberts has the dangerous gift of detecting the truth.
David Rotenberg, 2013
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The Placebo Effect in Clinical Practice
The Placebo Effect in Clinical Practice brings together what we know about the mechanisms behind the placebo response, as well as the procedures that promote these responses, in order to provide a focused and concise overview on how current ...
Walter A. Brown, 2013
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Understanding the Placebo Effect in Complementary Medicine: ...
As the placebo effect continues to elicit passionate debate, this book tackles issues of the placebo effect in complementary medicine, and is targeted to both the experienced practitioner and the new student.
David Peters, 2001
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You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter
The book ends with a “how-to” meditation for changing beliefs and perceptions that hold us back—the first step in healing.
Dr. Joe Dispenza, 2014
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Placebo Effect
It is the year 3999.
Gary Russell, 1998
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Faith and the Placebo Effect: An Argument for Self-Healing
In this groundbreaking book, author Lolette Kuby-poet, cultural critic, and activist-raises a prophetic voice against the madness of conventional medicine, offering a radical and passionate argument for self-healing through faith, based on ...
Lolette Kuby, 2013
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Placebo effects: understanding the mechanisms in health and ...
This is the first book to critically review the mechanisms of placebo and placebo-related effects across all medical conditions, diseases, and therapeutic interventions.
Fabrizio Benedetti, 2009
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Placebo and Pain: From Bench to Bedside
Written by the international leading experts in the field, the book provides an accurate up-to-date [work] on placebo and pain dealing with current perspectives and future challenging issues.
Luana Colloca, Magne Arve Flaten, Karin Meissner, 2013
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Placebo: Mind Over Matter in Modern Medicine
In this intriguing exploration, Dylan Evans exposes the flaws in the scientific research into the placebo effect and reveals the limits of what can and cannot be cured by thought alone.
Dylan Evans, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLACEBO EFFECT»

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Placebo Can Ease Pain Even If Subject Knows It's Bogus
New research finds that the placebo effect still works even if research participants know the treatment they are receiving to ease pain has no ... «PsychCentral.com, Jul 15»
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A Cure For Whatever Ails You
Maybe it stimulates the immune system in unspecified ways… or maybe its apparent success is due to the placebo effect, which states: If you ... «Reykjavík Grapevine, Jul 15»
3
Muscle knot's genesis hazy; relief route clear
... pain, he said, although whether by breaking up knotted tissue, calming inflamed nerves or prompting a robust placebo effect, no one knows. «NWAOnline, Jul 15»
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Tips on how to have the best ginger-beach season of your life
There's no scientific evidence that says the our sun is prone to the placebo effect, and yet there's no evidence that says it isn't prone. Science! «The Peak, Jul 15»
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CU-Boulder study reveals how and when placebo effect works
These are two examples of the oft-studied placebo effect that demonstrate the amazing and still somewhat confounding powers of the human ... «News-Medical.net, Jul 15»
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Public Release: 24-Jul-2015 Know it's a placebo? CU-Boulder study …
These are two examples of the oft-studied placebo effect that demonstrate the amazing and still somewhat confounding powers of the human ... «EurekAlert, Jul 15»
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Study: Placebos can work even when patients know they're placebos
The placebo effect was shown in a study to be so strong that after patients were told their treatment did not include real drugs they still felt the ... «UPI.com, Jul 15»
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AVP-923 Significantly Reduces Agitation in Alzheimer's Disease
Cummings and colleagues used a two-stage Sequential Parallel Comparison (SPCD) study design to minimize placebo effect and analyze the ... «Neurology Advisor, Jul 15»
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This Beautiful iPhone Game Is All About Bonsai On An Alien World
Joel McDonald has been a fixture of the FPS gaming scene for years: after programming the classic Quake 4 map, Placebo Effect, he went on ... «Co.Design, Jul 15»
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Streetsplainer: Do crosswalk buttons do anything?
The anti-placebo effect: why do people assume the buttons don't work? Part of the problem is that there are many cities across the US and ... «Newsworks.org, Jul 15»

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