How Placebos Change the Patient's Brain

Biological, clinical, and ethical advances of placebo effects

(2010) Damien G Finniss et al.   LANCET

Monoamine Oxidase A and Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Functional Polymorphisms and the Placebo Response in Major Depressive Disorder

(2009) Andrew F. Leuchter et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

The Anatomy of the Mesolimbic Reward System: A Link between Personality and the Placebo Analgesic Response

(2009) P. Schweinhardt et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Electrophysiological properties of thalamic, subthalamic and nigral neurons during the anti-parkinsonian placebo response

(2009) Fabrizio Benedetti et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON

Activation of the Opioidergic Descending Pain Control System Underlies Placebo Analgesia

(2009) Falk Eippert et al.   NEURON

Placebo analgesia induced by social observational learning

(2009) Luana Colloca et al.   PAIN

No prefrontal control, no placebo response

(2009) Fabrizio Benedetti   PAIN

Prefrontal cortex modulates placebo analgesia

(2009) Peter Krummenacher et al.   PAIN

Direct Evidence for Spinal Cord Involvement in Placebo Analgesia

(2009) F. Eippert et al.   SCIENCE

Placebo and Nocebo Effects Are Defined by Opposite Opioid and Dopaminergic Responses

(2008) David J. Scott et al.   ARCHIVES OF GENERAL PSYCHIATRY

Neuropathic pain is maintained by brainstem neurons co-expressing opioid and cholecystokinin receptors

(2008) Wenjun Zhang et al.   BRAIN

Do “placebo responders” exist?

(2008) Ted J. Kaptchuk et al.   Contemporary Clinical Trials

The top-down influence of ergogenic placebos on muscle work and fatigue

(2008) Antonella Pollo et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study on the Neural Mechanisms of Hyperalgesic Nocebo Effect

(2008) J. Kong et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

A Link between Serotonin-Related Gene Polymorphisms, Amygdala Activity, and Placebo-Induced Relief from Social Anxiety

(2008) T. Furmark et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

New Insights into the Placebo and Nocebo Responses

(2008) Paul Enck et al.   NEURON

The role of learning in nocebo and placebo effects

(2008) L. Colloca et al.   PAIN

Behavioral Conditioning of Antihistamine Effects in Patients with Allergic Rhinitis

(2008) Marion U. Goebel et al.   PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOSOMATICS

Mechanisms of Placebo and Placebo-Related Effects Across Diseases and Treatments

(2007) Fabrizio Benedetti   Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology

A Comprehensive Review of the Placebo Effect: Recent Advances and Current Thought

(2007) Donald D. Price et al.   Annual Review of Psychology