Open-label placebos (OLP)—placebo pills honestly prescribed—have challenged the notion
that placebos require either deception or concealment to evoke salubrious benefits. This …

Placebos have been used ubiquitously throughout the history of medicine. Expectations and
associative learning processes are important psychological determinants of placebo effects …

Action monitoring allows the swift detection of conflicts, errors, and the rapid evaluation of
outcomes. These processes are crucial for learning, adaptive behavior, and for the …

Instructions, suggestions, and other types of social information can have powerful effects on
pain and emotion. Prominent examples include observational learning, social influence …

The power of a placebo to effect clinically meaningful neurobiological change comparable to
pharmacological therapies has been demonstrated, although the mechanisms are not fully …

Abstract Background TZP‐102, a potent, oral, ghrelin receptor agonist, improved diabetic
gastroparesis symptoms in Phase 2a. Methods Patients with type 1 or 2 diabetes, delayed …

Placebo treatments can strongly affect clinical outcomes, but research on how they shape
other life experiences and emotional well-being is in its infancy. We used fMRI in humans to …

Whether human beings have free will has been a philosophical question for centuries. The
debate about free will has recently entered the public arena through mass media and …

Research into placebo effects has convincingly shown that inducing positive outcome
expectations can reduce pain and other physical sensations. However, the comparative …

Migraine is the sixth most common cause of disability in the world. Preventive migraine
treatment is used to reduce frequency, severity and duration of attacks and therefore lightens …