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Unpacking the mystery of placebo.
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Unpacking the mystery of placebo.
Researchers are learning that placebos might be even more effective when patients know they’re receiving them.
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In a randomized clinical trial published today in JAMA Network Open, lead author Annabelle Belcher, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and her colleagues found that knowingly taking a placebo along with methadone could increase patients’ chances of staying on their treatment and provide other benefits like improved sleep.
A new study shows antidepressants outperformed placebo in only 15% of patients, almost exclusively in those with the most severe depression.