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Placebo Effects: Understanding the Mechanisms in Health and Disease Paperback - 2008 - 1st Edition

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Author: Fabrizio Benedetti
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The placebo effect is one of the most widely used and familiar terms within science and medicine, yet it is not always clear just what we mean by a placebo effect.Though we might describe a placebo effect as being 'all in the mind', we now know that there is a genuine neurobiological basis to this phenomenon.
In recent years our knowledge of the neural bases of the placebo effect has developed markedly, and we now have a far better understanding of how it can influence both the course of a disease and the response to therapy. This is the first book to critically review the mechanisms of placebo and placebo-related effects across all medical conditions, diseases, and therapeutic interventions. It describes the main psychological and biological mechanisms of placebo responsiveness across the entire spectrum of medical disciplines. In addition, it looks at the clinical and ethical implications of administering placebos. Exhaustive in its coverage, and written by a world authority in the field, this is the definitive reference text to the placebo effect - one that will be essential for researchers and clinicians across a wide range of medical specialities.

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Title Placebo Effects: Understanding the Mechanisms in Health and Disease
Author Fabrizio Benedetti
Binding Paperback
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 320
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
Date 2008-12
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780199559121 / 0199559120
Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Placebos (Medicine), Treatment Outcome
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008032621
Dewey Decimal Code 615.5

About the author

Fabrizio Benedetti received the Medical Doctor (MD) degree in 1981 from the University of Turin Medical School. In 1984, he received a Silbert International Award from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). In the 1980s and 1990s, he worked in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA and was a visiting professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Texas in Dallas. He has been Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience at the University of Turin Medical School since 1999. He has been a member of the six-strong group on placebo of the Mind-Brain-Behavior Initiative at Harvard University, and a consultant for the Placebo Project at the US National Institute of Health. His current scientific interests are the placebo effect across diseases, pain in dementia, and intraoperative neurophysiology for mapping the human brain.