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  1. DigitalDrifter
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    Placebo and Nocebo Effects Are Defined by Opposite Opioid and Dopaminergic Responses 2008 (Claims Objective Proof of Placebo)

    Full article available: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/482600 Results Placebo-induced activation of opioid...
    Thread by: DigitalDrifter, Aug 22, 2023, 0 replies, in forum: Research methodology news and research
  2. DigitalDrifter
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    The Mechanism of Placebo Analgesia 1978, Levine et al (Claims Proof of Placebo)

    This much cited (over 1600 citations) study from 1978 claims to have proven the placebo effect is real. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/80579/...
    Thread by: DigitalDrifter, Aug 20, 2023, 4 replies, in forum: Research methodology news and research
  3. DigitalDrifter
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    Objective Proof of the Nocebo Effect?

    https://associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anae.15601?fbclid=IwAR22ywJ6ZJBVV9ZZ_Ag-T9ZPGka8RiNE8TpWFEOhrl_...
    Thread by: DigitalDrifter, Nov 17, 2022, 7 replies, in forum: Other psychosomatic news and research
  4. Simbindi
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    Testing Treatments: Better Research for Better Healthcare - book endorsed by NIHR

    I was recently sent a free book from NIHR as a 'thank you' for the past work I had done for them as a patient rep. The book is entitled, 'Testing...
    Thread by: Simbindi, Aug 8, 2019, 24 replies, in forum: Research methodology news and research
  5. Andy
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    COMPare Trials, Ben Goldacre et al

    Two papers published today on the same subject, first: COMPare: a prospective cohort study correcting and monitoring 58 misreported trials in...
    Thread by: Andy, Feb 14, 2019, 26 replies, in forum: Research methodology news and research
  6. Sasha
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    Ben Goldacre: Building RCTs into GP practice

    I know Ben Goldacre hasn't exactly covered himself in glory in relation to PACE but he does nevertheless say some interesting things. At the...
    Thread by: Sasha, Oct 10, 2018, 6 replies, in forum: Research methodology news and research
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