Placebo Effects in Neurologic Disease

Placebo Effects in Neurologic Disease, Volume 153, the latest release in the International Review of Neurobiology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Background and Methods in Placebo, Better than Nothing: A Historical Account of Placebos and Placebo Effects from Modern to Contemporary Medicine, Determinants of PE, Strategies for Minimizing PE in Research, Maximizing placebo response in the clinic, Statistical methods for handling PE, Nocebo and Lessebo effects, Ethics of deception, Pain, Parkinson's Disease, Cognitive impairment, Epilepsy, and much more.

Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authorsPresents the latest release in the International Review of Neurobiology seriesUpdated release includes the latest information on the placebo effect

Part 1: Background and methods in placebo

1. Better than nothing: A historical account of placebos and placebo effects from modern to contemporary medicine

Marco Annoni

2. Determinants of placebo effects

Sharlet Anderson and Glenn T. Stebbins

3. Strategies to minimize placebo effects in research investigations

Filipe B Rodrigues and Joaquim J Ferreira

4. Maximizing placebo response in neurological clinical practice

Louise-Laure Mariani and Jean-Christophe Corvol

5. Statistical methods in handling placebo effect

Rema Raman

6. Nocebo and lessebo effects

Tiago A. Mestre

7. Deception and the ethics of placebo

A. Jon Stoessl

Part 2: Placebo response in specific disease populations

8. Placebo effects in pain

Luana Colloca

9. Placebo responses in Parkinson's disease

Jau-Shin Lou

10. Placebo effect in subjects with cognitive impairment

Kaori Ito and Klaus Romero

11. Placebo in epilepsy

Daniel M. Goldenholz and Shira R. Goldenholz