The breadth of topics addressed ... make this book an important read for anyone in the medical field.

Autorentext
Fabrizio Benedetti received the Medical Doctor (MD) degree in 1981 from the University of Turin Medical School. In 1984, he received a Silbert International Award from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). In the 1980s and 1990s, he worked in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA and was a visiting professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Texas in Dallas. He has been Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience at the University of Turin Medical School since 1999. He has been a member of the six-strong group on placebo of the Mind-Brain-Behavior Initiative at Harvard University, and a consultant for the Placebo Project at the US National Institute of Health. His current scientific interests are the placebo effect across diseases, pain in dementia, and intraoperative neurophysiology for mapping the human brain.

Klappentext

Placebo Effects (3e) is a significantly updated and expanded new edition of a highly successful and critically acclaimed textbook on placebos. It is the first book to emphasize that there are many placebo effects and reviews them critically in different medical conditions.

Inhalt

• The patient's brain: setting the stage for understanding placebo effects

• 1: A brief evolutionary account of medical care

• 2: Emergence and development of scientific medicine

• 3: Feeling sick: A combination of bottom-up and top-down events

• 4: Seeking relief: The activation of motivational and reward circuits

• 5: Meeting the therapist: A look into trust, hope, empathy and compassion mechanisms

• 6: The brain of the demented patient

• Placebo effects: General concepts and mechanisms

• 7: The traditional concept of placebo

• 8: A modern view of placebo and placebo-related effects

• 9: Placing placebo effects within the context of the doctor-patient relationship as a defence mechanism

• Disease-based classification of placebo effects - Most studied conditions

• 10: Pain

• 11: Diseases of the nervous system

• 12: Mental and behavioural disorders

• 13: Immune and endocrine systems

• Disease-based classification of placebo effects - Less studied conditions

• 14: Cardiovascular and respiratory system

• 15: Gastrointestinal and genitourinary disorders

• 16: Special medical conditions and therapeutic interventions

• Clinical, ethical and methodological considerations

• 17: Clinical-ethical implications and applications

• 18: How to run a placebo study: A closer look into complex experimental designs

• Beyond the healing context

• 19: Beyond the healing context

• 20: Everyday life