The Placebo Effect

Dr. Zohaib Siddiqi talks with Dr. Catarina Bernardes about a case involving a 35-year-old woman presenting with personality changes and gait impairment. Read the related Resident & Fellow Section article in Neurology®. Disclosures can be found at Neurology.org. 

In the second part of this two-part series, Dr. Dan Ackerman talks with Drs. Valérie Biousse and Nancy J. Newman about recent clinical trials, the need for collaboration between stroke neurologists and eye care providers, and the role of technology in improving patient outcomes. ...  Afficher plus

Today we're talking about the placebo effect. We're going to be going over what actually happens in the brain when you're experiencing the placebo, How you can actually use it in your life, take it to your advantage and whether or not micro dosing shrooms is just a placebo eff ...

This episode covers a patient in a placebo-controlled clinical trial and explores the placebo effect.

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For decades, scientists thought that placebos only worked if patients didn’t know they were taking them. Not anymore: You can give patients placebos, tell them they’re on sugar pills, and they still might feel better. No one is sure how this works, but it raises a question: Shoul ...  Afficher plus

In this episode, we explore psychodynamic psychopharmacology and its role in addressing treatment-resistant cases. We discuss how patient-doctor relationships, transference, and countertransference can impact medication effectiveness. How might your own unconscious bia ...