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The power of the placebo-effect - Coggle Diagram
The power of the placebo-effect
treating yourself
Mind
Powerfull healing tool
creating connection
brain and body
work together
Professor Ted Kaptchuk of Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
positive thinking
more
believing
treatment or procedure
will work
brain
Convince body
treatment real
Placebo-effect
Placebo
effective
like traditional treatments
do
make you feel better
work on symptoms
pain management
stress-related insomnia
cancer treatment side effects
fatigue
nausea
don't
lower cholesterol
shrink a tumor
cure
failure or success?
used in clinical trials
test effectiveness
treatments
drug studies
one group: actual drug
other group: inactive drug, or placebo
participants
don't know
receive
real drug
placebo
researchers
measure
drug works
comparing groups
same reaction?
drug deemed not to work
different reaction?
much improvement?
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How do they work?
not quite understood
complex neurobiological reaction
includes
increases in feel-good neurotransmitters
endorphins
dopamine
--> greater activity in brain
linked to
moods
emotional reactions
self-awareness
therapeutic benefit
The placebo effect is a way for your brain to tell the body what it needs to feel better," says Kaptchuk.
Not all about releasing brainpower
ritual of treatment
environment
clinic
examined by professionals
getitng attention and care
receive all kinds of pills
undergo strange procedures
ritual factor
impact
how the body perceives symptoms
What happens if you know you are getting a placebo?
study migraine
3 groups
migraine drug
placebo: labeled "placebo"
nothing
researches
discovered
placebo 50% effective
as the real drug
reduce pain: migrain attack
people
associate the ritual
positive healing effect
brain
thinking the body is being healed
Even when they know
not medicine
Harvard Health