Mind-Body Healing Machines

From a PowerPoint “Virtual Healing Machine” to Custom GPTs: Technology Finally Caught Up to the Vision

2026-06-03T16:29:41.774-05:00

Years ago, I created something called “The Virtual Healing Machine”.

It consisted of free guided-meditation and health-improvement videos designed to offer HOPE to people who felt hopeless, helpless, overwhelmed, stressed, or chronically unwell.

The larger vision behind it was simple:

👉 give everyday people free tools they could use to help themselves manage health and life between medical visits — 24/7.

At the time, the technology was limited.

But today, technology has finally caught up to the vision.

While the original guided videos may still help some people today, I am now expanding that same philosophy into articles, books, blogs, and Custom GPTs designed to help people think more clearly, organize symptoms and stress, process difficult situations, and better manage the intertwined nature of health and life.

The goal is not to replace doctors or therapists.

The goal is to provide supportive, human-centered tools that help people:

reflect
organize
communicate
cope
and navigate difficult periods more effectively between visits and between difficult moments.

I’m currently building Custom GPTs based on these ideas.

My first Custom GPT:

Make Sense of My Health
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-69fa4cd970448191ace058c5d4ca15f2-make-sense-of-my-health

The original Virtual Healing Machine project:

https://sites.google.com/site/thevirtualhealingmachine/

I believe many people today are looking not just for information, but for ongoing support, reflection, clarity, and practical help navigating modern life and chronic stressors.

Technology can now help provide some of that support in ways that were difficult or impossible years ago.

Thanks to GenAI for help in making this article.

Disclaimer - For informational purposes only. This article is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider. Additional Disclaimers here.

My Amazon Author Page
https://www.amazon.com/author/tomgarz

How to Use ChatGPT to Reduce Flare Anxiety

2026-03-07T10:13:00.000-06:00

When Fear of the Next Flare Becomes the Hardest Symptom

For many people with chronic illness, the symptoms themselves are only part of the struggle.

Another layer develops over time:

fear of the next flare.

You may think:

• When will it hit again?
• What if I can't function tomorrow?
• What if I planned something and have to cancel again?
• What if the symptoms get worse?

This is called flare anxiety.

It’s the constant anticipation that your condition might suddenly worsen.

And the difficult truth is this:

Sometimes that anxiety becomes more exhausting than the flare itself.

Why Flare Anxiety Happens

If your body has surprised you with pain, fatigue, migraines, autoimmune flares, or other symptoms in the past, your brain learns something:

“Danger might be coming.”

Your nervous system begins scanning constantly.

You watch for signals.

You analyze every sensation.

You worry about plans.

This is a very human survival response.

But over time, constant vigilance can lead to:

• muscle tension
• poor sleep
• increased stress hormones
• increased symptom sensitivity

Which can ironically make flares more likely.

This creates a difficult cycle.

Symptom → fear → stress → more symptoms.

Breaking this cycle is one of the most important skills in chronic illness management.

How ChatGPT Can Help

ChatGPT can act as a structured reflection tool to help calm the mind when flare anxiety starts to spiral.

Not by dismissing your symptoms.

But by helping you think more clearly.

You can open ChatGPT here:

https://chat.openai.com/

Then paste this prompt:

“I live with a chronic condition and I’m feeling anxious about a possible flare. Help me slow down, think through this calmly, and focus on what I can realistically do right now.”

Step 1: Separate Signals from Fear

When anxiety rises, it can be hard to tell the difference between:

• early flare symptoms
• normal body sensations
• stress responses

You can ask ChatGPT:

“Help me sort out what I’m noticing in my body right now versus what I’m worrying about.”

This simple step can reduce catastrophic thinking.

Step 2: Ground Yourself in the Present

Flare anxiety often lives in the future.

“What if tomorrow is terrible?”

ChatGPT can help shift focus back to right now.

Prompt:

“Help me focus on what is actually happening right now instead of worrying about what might happen.”

Often the present moment is less threatening than the imagined future.

Step 3: Identify What You Can Control

You cannot control everything about chronic illness.

But you can influence many things.

Ask ChatGPT:

“Help me identify a few small things I can do right now that might support my body.”

Examples might include:

• resting
• pacing activity
• hydration
• calming breathing
• reducing stress

Small actions can help you feel less helpless and more in control.

Step 4: Calm the Nervous System

Fear activates the fight-or-flight system.

That can worsen symptoms.

ChatGPT can guide calming exercises.

Prompt:

“Guide me through a simple exercise to calm my nervous system because I’m worried about a flare.”

Reducing nervous system activation can sometimes reduce symptom intensity.

Step 5: Prepare Instead of Panic

Sometimes the fear of flares comes from feeling unprepared.

Ask ChatGPT:

“Help me make a simple flare plan so I feel more prepared if symptoms increase.”

A plan might include:

• pacing strategies
• medication review with your doctor
• rest strategies
• communication with family
• doctor guidance to help you help yourself 24/7 in between doctor’s visits

Preparedness reduces uncertainty.

A Biopsychosocial Perspective

Flare anxiety often involves multiple factors interacting:

Biological

• inflammation
• fatigue
• hormonal shifts
• infections

Psychological

• worry
• past experiences
• fear of loss of control

Social

• work expectations
• caregiving responsibilities
• financial pressure

Understanding this whole-person picture helps reduce the feeling that the problem is “all in your head.”

It isn’t.

Your mind and body are responding to a difficult situation.

Important Reminder

ChatGPT cannot diagnose medical conditions or replace medical care.

If you experience:

• severe new symptoms
• rapidly worsening symptoms
• symptoms that concern you

seek medical advice from a healthcare professional.

This tool is meant to support reflection and coping, not replace care.

The Goal Is Not Perfect Control

Living with chronic illness means some uncertainty will always exist.

The goal is not eliminating all anxiety.

The goal is learning how to respond to it with calmness instead of panic.

Over time, that shift can lead to:

• less stress
• better pacing
• improved symptom stability
• greater confidence

Final Thought

When you live with long-term health challenges—physical, emotional, mental, psychological, spiritual, or multiple conditions together—it can start to feel like your body, mind, and life are unpredictable.

But anxiety about flares doesn’t have to control your life.

Sometimes the most powerful step is simply slowing down and asking:

“What do I actually need right now?”

And giving yourself permission to respond with care instead of fear.

Thanks to GenAI for help in making this article.

Disclaimer - For informational purposes only. This article is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider. Additional Disclaimers here.

My Amazon Author Page
https://www.amazon.com/author/tomgarz

Use ChatGPT to Rewrite Illness Identity

2026-03-01T16:46:00.000-06:00

You Are More Than Your Diagnosis

Chronic illness doesn’t just affect the body.

It changes identity.

At first, you say:

“I have migraines.”
“I have lupus.”

“I have long COVID.”

Over time, it can shift into:

“I’m broken.”
“I’m weak.”
“I’m the sick one.”
“I can’t do what I used to.”
“This is who I am now.”

Illness slowly becomes your story.

Your introduction.

Your label.

And that shift — from having an illness to being an illness — can quietly drain hope.

This article shows you how to use ChatGPT to begin gently separating your identity from your diagnosis.

Not to deny your symptoms.

Not to minimize real suffering.

But to reclaim parts of you that illness tried to erase.

Why Identity Matters in Healing

When illness becomes your identity:

• You scan constantly for symptoms
• You speak about yourself in disease language
• You limit possibility
• You shrink your world
• You lose contact with former strengths

This is natural.

It’s also reversible.

Research in psychology and trauma recovery shows that identity reconstruction is a powerful part of healing — even when symptoms remain.

You can live with illness without becoming it.

How to Begin

Open ChatGPT here:
https://chat.openai.com/

Paste this prompt:

“Help me separate my identity from my illness.”

Then let the conversation unfold.

What This Prompt Does

A good response will help you explore:

• Who you were before illness
• Strengths that still exist
• Roles that illness didn’t erase
• Values that still matter
• Meaning beyond symptoms

It may ask:

“What parts of you feel overshadowed by illness?”
“What qualities do people admire in you?”
“What would you want someone to remember about you besides your diagnosis?”

These questions reconnect you with self.

A More Structured Version

If you want more depth, try:

“Help me explore how my illness has shaped my identity — and how I can reclaim parts of myself beyond it.”

Or:

“Help me rewrite my self-description without centering my illness.”

Example: Identity Rewrite

Instead of:

“I’m a chronic pain patient.”

Try exploring:

“I’m a resilient person navigating chronic pain.”

Instead of:

“I’m disabled and limited.”

Explore:

“I’m adapting to physical limits while still valuing connection and purpose.”

Language matters.

The brain listens.

Why This Matters

When your identity becomes wrapped up in your illness, it can start to feel like:

“My pain means I’m weak.”
“My fatigue means I’m lazy.”
“My anxiety means I’m broken.”

Symptoms begin to feel like personal failures.

But when you separate who you are from what you’re experiencing, something shifts.

Pain becomes something you are dealing with — not something you are.

Fatigue becomes a condition — not your character.

Anxiety becomes a response — not your identity.

That shift reduces shame.
It reduces self-blame.
It reduces the feeling that you are the problem.

And when shame and fear decrease, the body often becomes less tense and reactive.

Less tension can mean fewer symptom spikes.
Less fear can mean fewer flares.

It may not cure the illness.

But it can bring steadiness.
And steadiness is relief.

What If I Don’t Feel Like Myself Anymore?

That’s honest.

Illness can change you.

The goal is not to go back.

It’s to integrate.

You are not who you were at 25.

But you are not just your diagnosis either.

In the ongoing chat, ChatGPT can help you explore:

• “Who am I becoming through this?”
• “What strengths have emerged?”
• “What values matter now?”
• “What can still grow?”

Growth can coexist with grief.

Important Safety Note

If you are experiencing:

• Severe depression
• Thoughts of self-harm
• Hopelessness that feels dangerous

Please seek immediate professional support.

Identity work is powerful, but mental health safety comes first.

Continue working with healthcare and mental health professionals as needed.

A Weekly Identity Reset Practice

Once a week, try:

“Run an identity check-in with me. Ask questions that remind me who I am beyond illness.”

Five minutes.

One reflection.

One reclaimed piece of self.

That adds up.

Final Thought

You are not your lab results.

You are not your pain scale.

You are not your diagnosis code.

You are a whole human being navigating difficult situations.

And your story is larger than your symptoms.

Sometimes, you just need help remembering.

Illness Identity

Thanks to GenAI for help in making this article.

Disclaimer - For informational purposes only. This article is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider. Additional Disclaimers here.

My Amazon Author Page
https://www.amazon.com/author/tomgarz

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How do You Feel about Artificial Intelligence? - Guided Journal

2023-07-12T16:53:00.001-05:00

Cerebral Palsy Guidance (CPG)

2020-07-05T09:43:00.006-05:00

"The outreach teams at Cerebral Palsy Guidance (CPG) sent me some great information on their website and cerebral palsy. I'm sharing this information today in hopes it reaches somebody in need.

The CPG (cerebral palsy guidance) website covers cerebral palsy from all angles–from symptoms, causes, and treatment, to daily living information. Most importantly and unlike some other resources, the information at cerebralpalsyguidance.com is reviewed and edited by pediatric doctors and nurses (as well as HONcode certified as trustworthy health information)." If you have questions, please contact CPG directly. - "

#cerebralpalsy

Flu Shot Optimizer

2018-01-23T08:51:00.000-06:00

Flu Shot Optimizer - A Guided Meditation for use Before, During, and/or After Your Flu Shot.

This Video does NOT replace getting a Flu Shot!

The “Flu Shot Optimizer” is a tool for Relaxation and Positive Suggestions.

• Research has shown that being in a “Good Mood” might Optimize the Effectiveness of your Flu Shot.
• In addition, many studies show Relaxation and Positive Suggestions might Improve the Overall Efficiency of your Immune System.

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Please see the Research listed below the Video.

Script at https://sites.google.com/site/thevirtualhealingmachine/module-scripts

Disclaimer – Video is for information only and is not medical advice. Be sure to get the flu shot! This video does NOT replace getting the flu shot. Please use your own judgment whether these videos are appropriate for you. If in doubt, please seek advice from a health-care professional, if possible. Additional disclaimer athttps://sites.google.com/site/thevirtualhealingmachine/disclaimer-and-fyi

Ongoing Healing Indicator

2017-12-18T12:44:00.000-06:00

Do you have a Patient who is Anxious for the Medicine/Treatment to work? - See video at https://youtu.be/ZySOPEMXS78

Using a “Ongoing Healing Indicator” might calm them down and relax.

In use, the Patient is instructed to watch the flickering light and relax.

The “Ongoing Healing Indicator” first appeared in the "Healing Prayer Focalizer"

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I made mine from a ordinary battery operated Tea Light - and applied a homemade "Ongoing Healing Indicator" sticker.

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In use, the healthcare worker could say things to promote Relaxation and/or to enhance the Placebo Effect.

Using such a device might provide comfort and/or distraction from pain/anxiety.

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Possible comforting words/actions to use with the Ongoing Healing Indicator....adding words to refer to "Ongoing Healing takes Time"....just relax and let the medicine work...the medicine works better when you're relaxed....just look at the flickering light and imagine yourself getting better and better...you see yourself as healthy and happy now...

https://freehypnosisscripts.info/deepening-scripts/relaxation

https://freehypnosisscripts.info/subject-scripts-2/healing

https://www.hypnosisdownloads.com/health-issues/placebo-effect

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Ideas on what else might be done...

* Other colors/shapes...

Engage more senses in Ongoing Healing...

* Smell - example - Oil Diffuser Tea Light
* Sight - Other colors/shapes...

* Touch - add vibrations, soothing touch, etc.
* Sound - add music - example
also - Ongoing Healing messages

More ideas here....and here....and here....and here, too.

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Also, the "Tea Light" could be controlled and programmed to do most anything by an Arduino microprocessor...

* https://learn.adafruit.com/remote-controlled-led-candelabra/code

* https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:36139

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HuVOVEEFsM

* https://www.kpkaiser.com/mindhack/hacking-meditation-with-the-arduino/

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Let me know if you have any questions.
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Disclaimer - Article is for information only and is not medical advice.

"Pill Potentizer" and "Pill Potentizer Booster" - New Concept!

2017-03-22T13:37:00.000-05:00

Imagine, if you will, the "Pill Potentizer", which might increase the perceived potency of medication.

There are two versions of the Pill Potentizer -
* The full version for maximum perceived effectiveness - https://youtu.be/vuCy94Nr2mw
* The "Pill Potentizer Booster" which is a shortened version - designed to reactivate the maximum perceived potency of medicine, between uses of the "Pill Potentizer" - https://youtu.be/PIAhSP79otw

In addition to Potentizing Pills, one can use the Potentizer to make any Medicine/Treatment seem to work better.

Let me know if you have any suggestions for improvement. Thanks

New Group -“Exploring how Emotions affect Health, Using Science/Technology”

2016-07-30T09:59:00.000-05:00

Would you or others be interested in this New Group? -“Exploring how Emotions affect Health, Using Science/Technology”

This new group is for Technical People interested in exploring the Mind/Body Connection, using Science and Technology.

The group is on both LinkedIn and Facebook, for maximum effect. Please join, if you think it might be helpful for you.

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8535852

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/257351437958472/

This is a group of mainly Healthcare Professionals, Scientists, Researchers, Engineers, Technically-Minded Patients, Inventors, Innovators, Experimenters, Makers, STEM Students/Instructors, etc. - but all are welcome.

Your participation and sharing in this group is appreciated. Please let others know of this group, too - and click the "Invite Others" Button.

Thanks

Emotion Measuring Tools and Resources - Overview - Exploring How Emotions affect Health

2016-05-30T15:00:00.001-05:00

It is well known that Emotions can affect Health, either positively or negatively. Positive Emotions benefit Health. Negative Emotions (Negative Stress) seem to cause or aggravate Sickness. We now have the Scientific/Technological Tools to explore and quantify Mind/Body Healing/Homeostasis. Let's explore How Emotions affect Health, Using Science/Technology!

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Below please find a brief overview of Affective Science Information, Tools, and Resources. Let me know if you would like to add more.

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LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES....

Emotion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Affective science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Affective computing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions

Emotion in animals

Handbook of Affective Sciences

Affective Science and Health - Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory

Emotions: A Basic Affective Science Approach - YouTube

Lisa Feldman Barrett Pain in the brain - YouTube

TED Talk: Dr. Habib Sadeghi discusses how emotions and thoughts ...

Emotion, Stress and Health: Crash Course Psychology #26 - YouTube

Technology and Emotions | Roz Picard | TEDxSF - YouTube

The neuroscience of emotion: Kerry Ressler at TEDxPeachtree 2012 ...

The science of emotions: Jaak Panksepp at TEDxRainier - YouTube

Measures of emotion: A review - NCBI - National Institutes of Health

Measuring Emotion - Magnus

The relation of emotions to placebo responses | Philosophical ...

Cognitive and Emotional Influences on Placebo ... - OPUS Würzburg

Emotions and Medicine - NCBI - National Institutes of Health

Emotional dimensions of chronic disease

Assessment of existing tools for the measurement of emotions

What are emotions? And how can they be measured?

Future Affective Technology for Autism and Emotion Communication

Handbook of Affective Sciences (Series in Affective Science ...

Rosalind W. Picard: Your Future Smart Wristband || Radcliffe In

Brain Activity Revealed Through Your Skin: Stress, Sleep, & Seiz

>>>> Perhaps a little far out, but maybe of interest....

Plant perception (paranormal) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Humorism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Four temperaments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

RESOURCES AND NETWORKING...

"Exploring how Emotions affect Health, Using Science/Technology" - New LinkedIn Group and on Facebook - Facebook - Exploring how Emotions affect Health, Using Science/Technology

The Society for Affective Science

Affective Science | Department of Psychology

Affective Science and Treatment Laboratory : Department of Psychiatry ...

Affective Science - Department of – Psychology - Texas A&M University

the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences

SOME TOOLS AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC...

Galvanic Skin Response Board. - Arduino Forum

Biometric signals with Arduino: heart rate and Galvanic Skin Response

How To: Acquire physiological signals and measure stress with e ...

What are the best, most accessible sensors for measuring human ...

Arduino & Processing used in Affective Computing « Creation ...

LilyPad Arduino | MIT Media Lab

Stress Thermometer

NEULOG Galvanic Skin Response Sensor, 10 nS Resolution, 100 S/sec Maximum Sample Rate

Grove - GSR

Digital USB Polygraph (Lie Detector) Demonstration Kit

Mindplace Thoughtstream USB Personal Biofeedback

Pulse Sensor HRV Poincare Plot

e-Health Sensor Platform V2.0 for Arduino and Raspberry Pi ...

OpenBR | Home

OpenFace

List of 10+ Face Detection / Recognition APIs, libraries, and software ...

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Good Luck in your Research and Experimentation!

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Disclaimer - Article is for information only and is not advice of any kind, especially not medical or legal advice.

Healing Prayer Focalizer

2015-12-18T09:34:00.000-06:00

In a recent study, prayer was found to be the most common Complementary/Alternative medicine (CAM) therapy. - Is Prayer CAM?

That's why I thought it would be good to make a “Healing Prayer Focalizer” (HPF).

It is meant to provide comfort, relief, and maybe even, healing.

The HPF was made from common everyday parts and is controlled by an Arduino microcontroller.

My working model is not for sale, but within this folder, you will find information on how to make, use, and improve your own “Healing Prayer Focalizer”.
In addition, you find information on how to better understand how healing in general might work, especially Complementary/Alternative Healing modalities.

Healing Prayer Focalizer HPF Overview (Video) - Shows physical construction and possible typical applications.
Ideas on How to Use the Healing Prayer Focalizer.pptx
How to Make a Healing Prayer Focalizer.pptx

Ideas on How to Improve the Healing Prayer Focalizer.pptx
Mind, Body, Spirit Healing - How It Works.pptx (Complementary/Alternative Healing)

I hope you find this information helpful for you or for others. Let me know if you have any questions or comments.

If you find the HPF helpful, you might also find "The Virtual Healing Machine" of interest too.

Disclaimer - These writings and presentations are for information only and not medical or legal advice. See professionals as needed or wanted.

How It Works - Complimentary/Alternative Medicine or Treatment - Mind, Body, Spirit Healing

2015-12-18T09:09:00.000-06:00

What makes Complementary or Alternative Medicines and Treatments work, for some people?.....

If interested, Here's what I found for a "Mechanism of Action" or "How It Works"....Check it out...

Mind, Body, Spirit Healing - How It Works.pptx

Movie Version of Above - Mind, Body, Spirit Healing How It Works 0001

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I hope this information is helpful for you or others.

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Disclaimer - These writings and presentations are for information only and not medical or legal advice. See professionals as needed or wanted.

"Alternative Medical Device" Designers, Engineers, Inventors - Do you want to network?

2015-01-25T17:52:00.000-06:00

Are there any Alternative/Complementary (CAM) device groups, conferences, associations, etc. - networking with each other, sharing best practices, etc.?

I'd like to network and learn specifically from the technical people involved in making CAM devices. They might be engineers, researchers, scientists, doctors who make devices, inventors, anyone who uses the Placebo Effect in their devices.

I see great untapped potential in "enhancing the Placebo Effect", particularly with the use of devices, e.g. pain relief, anxiety reducers, depression boosters, healing machines, psychoneuroimmunology, etc.

Alternative Medicine (CAM) is big now and is growing, both in the U.S. and worldwide. There must be technical people designing CAM devices out there (engineers, designers, technicians, etc.) These technical people must have a good understanding of the Placebo Effect to make devices that "look and sound like they heal or comfort".

These devices might be viewed by some as Quack Medical Devices and, yet, by others as a "miracle cure" or as a "comfort measure", especially for chronic health conditions.

Inasmuch as Pharmaceutical Companies make use the Placebo Effect, methinks the conventional Medical Device Industry also makes use of the Placebo, too, though I can't find many references.

Here are some examples of what I'm talking about - CAM Medical Devices -

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Health-Personal-Care-Alternative-Medicine-Products/zgbs/hpc/13052911

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_n_2?fst=as%3Aoff&rh=n%3A3760901%2Cn%3A3763571%2Ck%3Apain&keywords=pain&ie=UTF8&qid=1422201387&rnid=3760931

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=pain+relief&_osacat=67659&ssPageName=GSTL&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR2.TRC0.A0.H0.Xpain+device&_nkw=pain+device&_sacat=67659

Do medical devices have enhanced placebo effects?

Placebo responses to medical device therapy for pain.

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I didn't find much in the way of (CAM) device groups, conferences, associations, etc. - but maybe someday.

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Homeopathy - National Center for Complementary an

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Me

Program in Placebo Studies & Therapeutic Encounter (

Energy Medicine | Foundation for Alternative and Integr

What is Complementary and Alternative Medicine ...

ICMBPS 2015 - TheIIER Home

National Society of Medical Scientists (NSMS)

Medical Devices Meetup Groups - Meetup

The Placebo Effect Team | PlaceboEffect.com

This app lets you create personalized placebo effects t

The rebranding of CAM as “harnessing the power of pl

NYU Alumni Magazine: Patient, Heal Thyself

I'm an Engineer, get me out of here - St Benedicts Sc

Search for Placebo Effect | Stanford Profiles

Placebo Effect - The Power of Belief | Keith R. Holden,

Biology for Engineers - Page 468 - Google Books Result

Math revealed Placebo Effect | Engineering Expert

Designing the ultimate healing technique (Part 1: Occa

Fundamentals of complementary and alternative medici

Here's my search strings -

(alliance OR consortium OR coalition OR union OR league OR guild OR syndicate OR federation OR confederation OR confederacy OR conglomerate OR cooperative OR partnership OR affiliation OR organization OR club OR society OR congress OR meetup)

(alternative OR complementary) (therapy OR medicine OR health) (devices OR machines OR apparatus)

site:.org (alternative OR complementary) (therapy OR medicine OR health) (devices OR machines OR apparatus) (alliance OR consortium OR coalition OR union OR league OR guild OR syndicate OR federation OR confederation OR confederacy OR conglomerate OR cooperative OR partnership OR affiliation OR organization OR club OR society OR congress OR meetup)

(((alternative OR complementary) AROUND(2) (therapy OR medicine OR health)) AROUND(5) (devices OR machines OR apparatus))) (engineers OR scientists OR researchers)

((alternative OR complementary) AROUND(2) (therapy OR medicine OR health) AROUND(5) (devices OR machines OR apparatus)) (engineers OR designers)

(designer OR engineer) AROUND(5) placebo effect

engineer AROUND(5) "alternative medical devices"

engineer AROUND(5) "complementary medical devices"

"reverse engineer" AROUND(50) "placebo effect"

(designer OR engineer) "placebo effect"

Comments? Got any suggestions?

Disclaimer - Article is for information only and is not medical advice.

What is the Placebo Effect? - Study Resources - Part 4

2015-01-16T15:33:00.000-06:00

This is part 4 of my ongoing research in "enhancing the Placebo Effect - and decreasing the Nocebo Effect". This is my study guide and I hope you find it useful too. You can find parts 1, 2 and 3 on this blog also.

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Here are the search strings I used, so far:

(harness OR elucidate OR enhance OR increase OR intensify OR heighten OR magnify OR amplify OR strengthen OR build-up OR supplement OR augment OR boost OR improve OR enrich) placebo

(decrease OR lessen OR reduce OR minimize OR moderate) (doctor OR nurse OR physician OR practitioner OR clinic OR hospital) nocebo

((harness OR elucidate OR enhance OR increase OR intensify OR heighten OR magnify OR amplify OR strengthen OR build-up OR supplement OR augment OR boost OR improve OR enrich)-placebo) ((decrease OR lessen OR reduce OR minimize OR moderate)-nocebo (doctor OR nurse OR physician OR practitioner OR clinic OR hospital))

placebo nocebo

((decrease OR lessen OR reduce OR minimize OR moderate) (doctor OR nurse OR physician OR practitioner OR clinic OR hospital)-placebo) OR (placebo-(run-in OR lead-in)) OR (placebo-responder))

("placebo effect" OR "placebo response" OR nocebo) (patents OR patentable OR patent)

The Psychology of Pharmacotherapy--An Integral Part of Problems of Rehabilitation and Quality of Life.

Homeopathy: How It Really Works.

The placebo effect : an interdisciplinary exploration

Topical Issues in Pain 4 Placebo and Nocebo Pain Management Muscles and Pain.

Individual differences in pain and placebo : an experimental investigation of nocebo hyperalgesia using thermal arm pain

Psychological aspects of cancer : a guide to emotion and psychological consequences of cancer, their causes and their management

Topical issues in pain. 4

PLACEBO - NOCEBO; HISTORIE OG BETYDNING. : En belysning af kulturelt skabte forventninger og deres betydning for sygdomsbehandling.

Motor and cognitive placebo-/nocebo-responses in Parkinson's disease patients with deep brain stimulation.

Placebo, Nocebo and patient response

Placebo and nocebo mechanisms

Do randomized clinical trials with inadequate blinding report enhanced placebo effects for intervention groups and nocebo effects for placebo groups?

Do randomized clinical trials with inadequate blinding report enhanced placebo effects for intervention groups and nocebo effects for placebo groups? A protocol for a meta-epidemiological study of PDE-5 inhibitors

The influence of placebo and nocebo expectancy effects on weight training performance in college students

You may (not always) experience what you expect: in search for the limits of the placebo and nocebo effect

Why medication in involuntary treatment may be less effective: the placebo/nocebo effect.

Gesundheitspsychologie : placebo, mobbing, resilienz, krankheitsmodell, nocebo-effekt,...

Det er "kun" placebo. Placebo-nocebo: Historie og betydning

Research methods : research, analysis, meta-analysis, animal testing, placebo-controlled study, grounded theory, qualitative research, nocebo, online questionnaires, statistical survey, quantitative research, publication bias, archival research.

The Potential of a Placebo/Nocebo Effect in Pharmacogenetics

Panacea or placebo? : linked electronic health records and improvements in health outcome

by New South Wales. Ministerial Advisory Committee on Privacy and Health Information.;

Research design issues in pain clinical trials

An annotated bibliography of placebo research

by Jim L Turner; Candace Fox-Henning; Ronald Gallimore

Research design issues in pain clinical trials

by Robert H Dworkin; John T Farrar;

Change mechanisms in placebo procedures : effects of suggestion, social demand, and contingent success on improvement in treatment

Improving Clinical Outcomes in Manual Therapy The Placebo Effect and Beyond.

The placebo effect in nutritional supplementation and improvement in performance outcomes : a meta-analysis

by Tarra Linn Rawdon

Clinical research for complementary therapy : principles, problems and solutions

by G T Lewith; Wayne B Jonas; Harald Walach;

The Placebo Responder : an Examination of Some Non-Specific Influences on Response to Treatment.

by Alan Arnold Black

Placebo -

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=3662445190

Fabrizio Benedetti, ‎Paul Enck, ‎Elisa Frisaldi

Placebo Effects: Understanding the mechanisms in health ...

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Fabrizio Benedetti - 2014

Placebo Is for Real: How to apply the placebo effect to ...

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=9525901513

Erkki Leppänen - 2013

Articles on Medicinal Chemistry, Including: Placebo, ...

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Hephaestus Books - 2011

Superstitious Choice and the Placebo Effect: Consumer ...

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1243844361

Eric Hamerman - 2011

Introduction to Placebos: Expectancy and Conditioning, ...

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1276237405

Gaby Alez - 2012

The Role of Motivation and Expectancy in the Placebo Effect

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1249883377

Carrie J. Aigner - 2012

The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the ...

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0060858834

Mario Beauregard, ‎Denyse O'Leary - 2007

Neuroscience of Pain, Stress, and Emotion: Psychological ...

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0128005386

Magne Arve Flaten, ‎Mustafa al'Absi - 2016

Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics - Page 429

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0199570701

Judy Illes, ‎Barbara J. Sahakian - 2011

Encyclopedia of Psychopharmacology - Volume 2 - Page 1033

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=3540686983

Ian P. Stolerman - 2010

Active and Placebo Effects in the Treatment of Moderate ...

https://books.google.com/books?id=JErrNwAACAAJ

Lucille Carr-Kaffashan

The Placebo Effect in Nutritional Supplementation and ...

https://books.google.com/books?id=7U1etwAACAAJ

Tarra Linn Rawdon

Aspirin and Placebo in Oral Surgery

https://books.google.com/books?id=fEn_HAAACAAJ

Lucian Szmyd, ‎Clarence M. McCall, ‎Albert L. Porreca - 1958

1. Understanding the Placebo Effect in Complementary Medicine: Theory, Practice, and Research Contributors: David Peters

The placebo effect and health : combining science and compassionate care / W. Grant Thompson.

Placebo in history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The nocebo effect: history and physiology. - Research

FTC v. Pantron I Corp.

33 F. 3d 1088 - Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, 1994 - Google Scholar

Joubert v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.

Dist. Court, WD Washington, 2010 - Google Scholar

United States v. An Article... Acu-Dot...

483 F. Supp. 1311 - Dist. Court, ND Ohio, 1980 - Google Scholar

"People who are given medication for an ailment frequently feel better because they think they should, even though the product has no therapeutic value. This is known as the placebo effect. In order to eliminate the bias of the placebo effect in a clinical study, it is common practice to "blind" the participants, i. e., dispense to the control group a placebo which simulates in taste, smell, and appearance the product being tested. Similarly, to neutralize any subconscious bias of the examiner, it is important to blind him, i. e., prevent him from knowing which subjects received the medication and which did not. A study in which both the subjects and the examiner are blinded is referred to as "double-blind." See JA 914-916." - Lecture 3

The Active Placebo Effect: Patent Eligible Subject Matte

assertTrue( ): New Patents Aim to Reduce Placebo Effect

Patent US7983936 - System and method for reducing th

The placebo effect: international patent law and the ...

Comparing Strategies for Trials with High Placebo Re

The Placebo Effect in Intellectual Property - Berkele

The placebo effect: international patent law and ... - Pa

List of new Placebo Effect patents & technologies

RCT Logic helps decrease time to market & costs to

Emotions and Disease: Self-Healing, Patents, and Place

Trial designs advance to overcome bitter pill of plac

It’s Great! Oops, No It Isn’t: Why Clinical Research Can

High placebo response. Crossover, placebo lead-in

placebo effect legal definition of placebo effect

Placebo effect - Science Museum

U.S. Patent Office Revises Guidelines After Drugmaker

With acquisition, PPD improves process to test depres

Overstating the Placebo Effect | Dr. Harold Koplewicz

Placebo effect in drug trials - Ariana Anderson, PhD

Understanding the placebo effect | The Economist

It's All in Your Head: Reinforcing the Placebo Response

Pat'sBlog: A Brief History of the Placebo Effect

Nocebo Effect | GreenMedInfo | Anti-Therapeutic Action

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Nocebo effects and psychotropic drug action, Expert Re

Placebo Response in Schizophrenic Outpatients

Implications of the placebo effect for physicians

High technology and placebo effect: myocardial ... - S

The Placebo Files #1: Response vs. Effect | Scotty ...

Trial designs advance to overcome bitter pill of placeb

Pharma Marketing Blog: How the Placebo Effect ...

Placebo effect in child and adolescent psychiatric tria

Is It True That Antidepressants Are No Better Than Plac

Lifewave Patent Rejected - T he W orld W ide S cam N e

Spontaneous Remission and the Placebo Effect - Quackw

Placebo effect beats God, Prozac - SFGate

03-03-11 Teasing Out the Placebo Effect in Psychiatric ..

Doctor Who - Placebo Effect

Patents: USPTO allowance extends BDSI patent protecti

shifting between our two self-identities can cause t

What Is the Placebo Effect? - Arthritis and Joint Conditi

Rose-tinted spectacles on the NHS | The BMJ

Zoloft No Better Than Dummy Pill, Says Lawsuit - Medi

Chekhov, Homeopathy and the Placebo Effect | The ...

Multiple Sclerosis Research: The placebo effect

Ignoring Non-Patentable Elements While Judging Novelty

This app lets you create personalized placebo effects

Cerecor Granted U.S. Patent for Antitussive FP01

The “Placebo” and “Nocebo” effects — How does what y

The Great American Placebo Heist | benelles.com

Why the Pharma Industry No Longer Warrants Public Tr

Bodily self-image and methods for predicting placeb

Valkee ear light gadget called "scam against sick peopl

Background - Cerium Optical Products

The placebo response: How words and rituals chan

The Many Meanings of the Placebo Effect: Where They .

Analgesic effect of acupuncture needle penetration: a

Psychosomosis - the Placebo and Nocebo Effects: Curin

Placebo effect | Better Always

The father of nutraceuticals: “The placebo effect is rea

Rigorous studies show that the placebo effect accounts

Pick Your Poison: Patent-Ineligibility or Inherency ...

MS patients who claim to have benefited from treatm

The Myths of Herbal Medicine | Science-Based Life

Citing Your Sources--APA Citation Style

View Diseases as listed in Patent 4816563 - Antibiotic

The Placebo Response in Studies of Acute Migraine

The Nocebo Effect Can Kill You If You Don't Watch Out ...

The Placebo Effect | Token Skeptic

Maurizio Fava, M.D. – Keynote: Methodological Appro

Opko Health: The Placebo Effect - Lakewood Capital

The Doctor-Patient Relationship Revisited: An Analysis o

Do we Need a New Procedure for the Assessment of ...

PPD acquires RCT Logic's license to clinical trial design t

The Tragedy of Lou Lasagna - Dr. David Healy

Project MUSE - The Powerful Placebo

The Patent Medicine Paradigm | PopMatters

Subject Matter Experts | Bracket Global

Stranger than you can imagine: Placebo and nocebo eff

The Placebo Effect: Happiness Pills - Happiness India Pr

Ethical Use of Placebo in Research and Practice

Earle Fox testimony on Mannatech products

Scientific American Frontiers . The Wonder Pill. Hotline

2010_01_26 | American College of Rheumatology | ACR

Personal Health Freedom: Placebos, Nocebos, and the ...

Dr. Quackery's Medicine Shop - Fun Facts, Questions ...

Redalyc. Subliminal Messages for Increasing Self-Est

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Patient Self ...

Power Balance Roots Hark Back to Patent Medicines ...

Mark McKenna // Notre Dame News // University of Notr

Snake Oil Almanacs: Patent Medicine Advertising in the

Your Brain Can Hurt You - Utne Reader

Pain relief from acupuncture is real, Penn study find

Placebo effect demonstrates healing power of the mind

Intend Balance | Josephs Story

Topical Cannabis Preparations: Snake Oil or Healing ...

Begley: Placebo Nation--Just Believe - Newsweek

Ajit Vadakayil: THE PLACEBO EFFECT AND ...

Judging a Pill by its Cover | Articles | Finnegan

Placebo, a historical perspective - Academia.edu

Medical quackery revisited | The Ethical Nag

Nocebo Effect Shows We're All A Bunch Of Worriers | Bl

U.K. doctors admit doling out 'useless drugs' for placeb

Anti-Depession Drugs-is it just a Placebo Effect | Politi

Neurobiology of Pain and the Homeless Patent - Nat

The Color of That Little Pill Does Make a Difference

The PLACEBO EFFECT is wonderful, isn't it? (Drugs & M

1 Identifying Placebo Effects with Data from Clinical

This Cure Is Good For Funny Bone - Orlando Sentinel

The Science - The Connection: Mind Your Body

The Death of CNS Drug Development - Worldwide C

Enlightened Catholicism: About That Miracle VS Placeb

Generic vs. Brand Name Drugs | Scott & White Healthca

The Curious Case Of Patent Number 6630507 | Patients

Evolution of a New Medication - semo.edu

The Placebo Effect, Mind Over Matter and Using the F

PILT Symposium to Examine Functionality Doctrine

Midterm Topics

Promising headway into more effective treatment ... - O

Medication Compliance and ePRO Solution for clinical

Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: A Closer Look: Mo

Reckitt Benckiser Not Launching Its Own Generic Subox

How Pharmaceutical Products Differ From Tennis Balls

Why are patents important to medical innovation? - Sh

Costco patent medicine works? | ZDNet

A Few Thoughts on Patent Medicines - There was a t

Treatment alternatives, the placebo effect and FDA a

Patent US7335474 - Methods and systems for identifyi

System And Method For Reducing The Placebo Effect I

Search Results for "Opko Placebo Effect Article" - BioP

System And Method For Reducing The Placebo Effect I

Asthma symptom changes reflect placebo effect - Healt

Viagra Placebo Effect - clatpu

Psych Drugs: The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction - P

Patents by Inventor Maurizio Fava - Justia Patents Data

EP Vantage - Circassia falls victim to placebo effect | Ev

The "placebo effect" and what is means for business ..

Weird science benefits from the placebo effect | Ars Tec

New Drug Development/Placebo Effect & Dietary ... - Qu

How the Placebo Effect Works » Stuff You Should Know .

Help Reduce the Placebo Effect in Clinical Drug Trials .

Placebo effect

Consciousness and the Placebo Effect - Free Essays

A Fat Nocebo - IndyTruth

Jimmy's Interview With Dr. Marshall Deutsch About The

Homeopathic Cures: Natural Healing or Placebo Effect

Placebos cloud results of clinical trials, medical practice

Quacks and the placebo effect | Trinidad Guardian - Mo

Irving Kirsch and placebo effect on 60 Minutes 2/19/12 -

placebo effect « Center for Medical Consumers

Does the placebo effect work on adhd patients? | ChaCh

Patients Before Patents | newmatilda.com

ben goldacre on Twitter: "Pharma rebranding pills to

The placebo “problem” | Addiction & Recovery News

Dissection of the factors driving the placebo effect in ..

Patents - Google - www.google.co.in/patents/US5849302

Placebo effect | Lenz Blog

Patent WO2001032017A1 - Google.co.ug

a free business school lesson for homeopaths | weird t

xkcd • View topic - The placebo effect becoming more

New Patents Aim to Reduce Placebo Effect The pharm

Patent US5849302 - Medicaments and cosmetics ... - G

July 09 - The Intellectual Property Lawyers Organisation

A study finds that the placebo effect works on more th

Kas Thomas - Imagine, there are now patents for drug-t

PJ Online | Onlooker (Placebo or "nocebo", their action is

Can Dyslexia Be Cured by the Placebo Effect? - Myom

Placebo Effect - CNET Download.com

The Anti-Placebo Effect | Book View Cafe Blog

Patent Basics | Brooklyn Business Center

US Patent No: 8219419 - Patent Buddy

BioPmed

Category: Science - Christopher Horvat

Is the “Placebo Effect” Real? And Might it be Really Use

Bayblab: How Quackery "Works" Part 1: The Placebo Eff

Repost: Pharma. drugs have a placebo effect. Is it grea

nocebo effect | Douglass Report - Official Site

Real. Fake. Both Can Cure Depression.(placebo effect an

The Placebo Effect | Other | Be Well World

CIPO - Patent - 2260957 - Claims

What is the placebo effect and how does it work? - Dail

Placebo et patents | Patentfish.com

Patent medicine as paradigm - LockerDome

The Placebo Effect - Sterman-Kaiser Imaging Laborat

The effect of reward expectation and dopamine release

Annotated Bibliography - Charlatans and Cheats: Our ...

Placebo Effect, Homeostasis, and Health Management

The Placebo Effect and How The Mind Plays Games Wi

Your Health: Why Do We Hesitate To Use Generic Drugs?

$2.5 billion spent, no alternative cures found | rabble.c

PPD acquires license for technology | StarNewsOnline

The role of placebo and nocebo effects in randomized t

The,Placebo,effect,–,The,power,of,Belief!!,business,rea

Another Mechanism for the Placebo Effect? - Less Wron

Distrust and Belief in Medicine; the Placebo effect and

Meaning, Medicine, and the “Placebo Effect” - Light F

Will a statin a day really keep the doctor away?

Depression: It's Not Your Serotonin

Outsmarting the placebo effect

Understanding placebo effects: how rituals affect the brain and th

Alternative therapies risk effectiveness of cancer tre

The Power of Drug Color

The 'Saatchi Bill' is dangerous and will bring nothing

A Better Way to Approach Pain, and America's Pain-Pill Epidemic

Have You Contributed to a Health Scam?

FDA Approves Sale Of Prescription Placebo | The Onion

SciFri 010612 Hour 1: Placebo Effect, Flu Research ...

Cures and Quackery: The Rise of Patent Medicines - Yo

The Lie That Heals: Should Doctors Give Placebos ...

The Placebo Effect: International Patent Law and the ..

Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones: The American Med

American Health Quackery: Collected Essays of James

Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 20: NextMed / MMVR20

Law and the Regulation of Medicines

You Don't Have to Die When Your Doctor Says: A Practic

Trick Or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alterna

Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May B

The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisone

Patent and Trade Mark Review - Volume 79 - Page 124

Mark Twain and Medicine: Any Mummery Will Cure - Pa

Patent, Trademark & Copyright Series

Marijuana As Medicine?:: The Science Beyond the Contr

Evidence check 2: homeopathy, fourth report of sessio

International Law and Indigenous Knowledge: Intellectu

Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a M

Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the ...

Prescribing Faith: Medicine, Media, and Religion in ... - Pa

The Medical Book: From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeo

The Patent Files: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Inven

Controversy in Internal Medicine - Volume 2 - Page 14

Understanding human behavior - Page 321

Competitive Problems in the Drug Industry: Hearings, ..

Cross Currents: The Promise of Electromedicine, the

Newsweek - Page 46

New Scientist - Volume 149 - Page 27

Interagency Coordination in Drug Research and Regul

The Decline of American Medicine: Where Have All the

Historical aspects of unconventional medicine: appro

Will it Sell?: How to Determine If Your Invention is ... - P

Pain - Page 94

The Relief of Symptoms - Page 66

Drugs, society, and human behavior - Page 296

The Psychology of Death - Page 414

Psychology in Relation to Medicine - Page 84

Perspectives on medicines in society - Page 558

Guide to clinical studies and developing protocols - Page

Perspectives on medicines in society - Page 558

Guide to clinical studies and developing protocols - Page

Contemporary Surgery - Volume 28 - Page 44

Hospital Therapy - Volume 15 - Page 772

Mind/Body Integration: Essential Readings in Biofeedba

The Philosophy of Evidence-based Medicine

Mysteries of the human body - Page 142

Vital and health statistics: Cognition and survey measu

The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers

Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us A

The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine

Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yours

United States Congressional serial set - Issue 4; Issue

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Dr

Principles and Practice of Pharmaceutical Medicine

Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a ...

The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of ...

Kidding Ourselves: The Hidden Power of Self-Deception

Stephens' Detection of New Adverse Drug Reactions - P

Blockbuster Drugs: The Rise and Fall of the Pharmace

Neuralgia: New Insights for the Healthcare Professiona

The Efficacy of Self-medication

A Practice of Anesthesia for Infants and Children: Expe

Health and Healing: The Philosophy of Integrative Med

Quack Medicine: A History of Combating Health Fraud i

Drug Control in a Free Society - Page 74

Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of ...

Adaptive Design Theory and Implementation Using SAS

The Secrets from Your Subconscious Mind: How to Inter

Balderdash: A Treatise on Ethics - Page 288

The Healing Bond: The Patient-Practitioner Relationship

Electropharmacology - Page 301

The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine -

The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine - P

A Master Class in Brand Planning: The Timeless Works o

The Context of Medicines in Developing Countries: Stu

Baba's Kitchen Medicines: Folk Remedies of Ukrainian .

Science and Ethics in American Medicine, 1800-1914 -

e-Study Guide for: The Behavioral Sciences and Health ..

Professions and the Public Interest: Medical Power, ... -

Biomedicine and the Human Condition: Challenges, Risk

Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and

Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Actio

The Rainbow Alchemist - Page 321

Health and Healing: The Philosophy of Integrative Med

Pediatric Anesthesia - Page 413

Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: The Medical

From Melancholia to Prozac: A History of Depression -

Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of ...

Persuasion and Healing: A Comparative Study of Psyc

Walking Your Blues Away: How to Heal the Mind and C

The big drink

Symptoms in the Pharmacy: A Guide to the Managem

The Cure is in the Cupboard: How to Use Oregano for

Handbook of Pain and Palliative Care: Biobehavioral ...

Listening to Prozac

The Spiritual Brain

Before Prozac : The Troubled History of Mood Disorders

Nostrums and Quackery: Articles on the Nostrum Evil

Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Bet

Pharmaceutical Marketing: Principles, Environment,

Pharmacy Case Studies

Pharmaceutical Marketing: Principles, Environment, and

Pharmacy Case Studies

From Alchemy to IPO: The Business of Biotechnology

Prozac Backlash: Overcoming the Dangers of Prozac, Z

The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-deceptio

Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the M

Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda

Confessions of a Medical Heretic

The Truth About The Drug Companies: How They Dec

The Road to Wellville

Clinician's Handbook of Prescription Drugs

Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary an

Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient

The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction

Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our

Kampo: how the Japanese updated traditional herbal m

The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the

Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy

Homeopathy: Medicine of the New Man

Healing with Magnets

Aequanimitas

Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition - ...

The Gecko's Foot: Bio-inspiration : Engineering New ...

Ebullience, Brain Stimulation, and the Placebo Respon

Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons

Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of He

Encyclopedia of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, Second

Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues

Discovering Homeopathy: Medicine for the 21st Centu

Your maximum mind

The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a B

Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, And How We Can

The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A Study of the N

No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality

Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants

Handbook of Religion and Health

The Social Transformation of American Medicine

The Two Cultures

Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in

The Science of Mind

A Massage Therapist's Guide to Pathology

Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of the Bible

The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccin

The Second Brain: A Groundbreaking New Understandin

Participatory Action Research

Wild Health: Lessons in Natural Wellness from the Anim

Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evol

The Orgone Accumulator Handbook: Construction Plan

When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global .

Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer

The Doctor, His Patient and the Illness

Recovering the Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual Search

De Materia Medica

Looking glass universe: the emerging science of wholen

Principles of Biomedical Ethics

Amazonian Ethnobotanical Dictionary

Native American Ethnobotany

Fire in the Soul: A New Psychology of Spiritual Optimi

Mediscams: Dangerous Medical Practices and Health C

Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medi

Chinese herbal patent medicines: the clinical desk refe

A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the ...

Healing and the Mind

Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach

Head First: The Biology of Hope

The Way of Chinese Herbs

History of Medicine: Major Depressive Disorder, Histor

The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology

Sacred Therapy

Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing

The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders

Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism i

Vibrational Medicine: New Choices for Healing Ourselv

The Transmission of Chinese Medicine

Clinimetrics

Evolutionary Medicine

The Emperor of All Maladies

The Secret

6 Myths about Alternative Medicine: Using It Wisely

The pharmaceutical industry

Pharmacy in History - Volume 27

Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Desig

Trans-Sister Radio: A Novel

Me and the Orgone

The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the H

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM): Migraine

Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation

Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless

The Isaiah Effect: Decoding the Lost Science of Prayer

Principles of Patent Law: Cases and Materials

Kombucha: The Miracle Fungus

Science and Human Transformation: Subtle Energies, ...

The Secret Language of Your Body: The Essential Guide

Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality

Culture and Health: Applying Medical Anthropology

The Art of Aromatherapy: The Healing and Beautifying ..

Energy Medicine for Women: Aligning Your Body's Energ

The Book of Floating: Exploring the Private Sea

The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Sci

Unlocking the Healing Code: Discover the 7 Keys to ...

Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving ...

More placebo writings/inventions to come,

but this is all for now.

Stay tuned, if interested.

Article is for information only and is not advice of any kind,

including not medical or legal advice. Seek professionals, as needed or wanted.

Placebo Effect and Nocebo Effect - Study Guide - Part 3

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This is part 3 of my ongoing research in "enhancing the Placebo Effect - and decreasing the Nocebo Effect". This is my study guide and I hope you find it useful too. You can find parts 1 and 2 on this blog also.

Placebo effect can enhance performance - study

The Use of Placebo and Non-Specific Therapies and Their Relation to Basic Professional Attitudes and the Use of Complementary Therapies among German Physicians – A Cross-Sectional Survey.

Mind matters: placebo enhances reward learning in Parkinson's disease.

Can an Educational Handout Enhance Placebo Analgesia for Experimentally-Induced Pain?

Seeing facial expressions enhances placebo analgesia.

Placebo improves pleasure and pain through opposite modulation of sensory processing.

Autonomic effects of suggestive placebo interventions to increase or decrease blood pressure: A randomized controlled trial in healthy subjects.

Mobilizing unused resources: Using the placebo concept to enhance cognitive performance.

Corrigendum to “Seeing facial expressions enhances placebo analgesia” [PAIN® 155(4) (2014) 666–673].

Can pill placebo augment cognitive-behavior therapy for panicdisorder?

Does elimination of placebo responders in a placebo run-in increase the treatment effect in randomized clinical trials? A meta-analytic evaluation.

Metformin and placebo therapy both improve weight management and fasting insulin in obese insulin-resistant adolescents: a prospective, placebo-controlled, randomized study.

Placebo enhances sports performance.

Putting the placebo effect to work. Rather than dismiss it, we should try to understand the placebo effect and harness it when we can.

Intranasal Oxytocin Application Enhances Placebo Effect

'Love Hormone' Might Heighten the Placebo Effect

Real and Placebo Reiki Boost Comfort in Patients Receiving Chemotherapy.

Metformin and placebo therapy both improve weight management and fasting insulin in obese insulin-resistant adolescents: a prospective, placebo-controlled, randomized study.

Study: Placebo improves sex life for women

Genetics and neuroimaging of attention and hypnotizability may elucidate placebo.

Opioid-mediated placebo responses boost pain endurance and physical performance: is it doping in sport competitions?

Placebo Pill Gives Boost to Some Women's Sex Drive

Placebo boosts women's sex drive, study finds

Little Difference Between Dietary Supplements and Placebo in Slowing Cartilage Loss.

Placebos boost performance

[Creatine--placebo or useful supplement?].

Placebos could improve link between medical outlooks.

Clinical features of depressed patients who do and do not improve with placebo.

SUPPLEMENTS FALL-OUT; Placebo or panacea?

How the placebo effect can improve your health.

Does placebo improve indexes of effort-induced myocardial ischemia? An objective study in 150 patients with chronic stable angina pectoris.

Why does placebo improve severe limb ischaemia?

Why Nothing Works.

To Tell the Truth, the Whole Truth, May Do Patients Harm: The Problem of the Nocebo Effect for Informed Consent.

Ulysses Contracts and the Nocebo Effect.

Nocebo in fibromyalgia: meta-analysis of placebo-controlled clinical trials and implications for practice.

Placebo Theory and Its Implications for Research and Clinical Practice: A Review of the Recent Literature.

Chiropractic And Homoeopathy.

How to increase treatment effectiveness and efficiency in psychiatry: creative psychopharmacotherapy - part 2: creating favorable treatment context and fostering patients' creativity.

On Gods and Placebos.

Getting the pain you expect: mechanisms of placebo, nocebo and reappraisal effects in humans.

A Neural Mechanism for Nonconscious Activation of Conditioned Placebo and Nocebo Responses.

Response to letter: Nocebo and placebo effects may not be separate in acupuncture.

The role of patient expectancy in placebo and nocebo effects in antidepressant trials.

Adverse events, placebo and nocebo effects in placebo-treated paediatric patients with refractory focal epilepsies. Analysis of double-blind studies.

Placebo/nocebo/tomato effect…it's all about attitude, perception, and expectation.

Nocebo and placebo modulation of hypobaric hypoxia headache involves the cyclooxygenase-prostaglandins pathway.

The placebo-nocebo response: controversies and challenges from clinical and research perspective.

The placebo-nocebo response in patients with depression: do we need to reconsider our treatment approach and clinical trial designs?

Placebo and nocebo effect: a mini-review.

Understanding placebo and nocebo responses for pain management.

Medicine's inconvenient truth: the placebo and nocebo effect.

The placebo and nocebo effects on peak minute power during incremental arm crank ergometry.

Do randomized clinical trials with inadequate blinding report enhanced placebo effects for intervention groups and nocebo effects for placebo groups?

Role of conditioning and verbal suggestion in placebo and nocebo effects on itch.

Placebo and nocebo effects: an introduction to psychological and biological mechanisms.

Placebo, nocebo, and learning mechanisms.

Placebo and nocebo effects in itch and pain.

Neural mechanisms mediating positive and negative treatment expectations in visceral pain: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study on placebo and nocebo effects in healthy volunteers

Placebo and nocebo effects in randomized controlled trials: the implications for research and practice.

The neurobiology of placebo and nocebo: how expectations influence treatment outcomes.

Motor and cognitive placebo-/nocebo-responses in Parkinson's disease patients with deep brain stimulation.

Using Sherlock and ClinicalTrials.gov data to understand nocebo effects and adverse event dropout rates in the placebo arm.

Placebo and nocebo: how to enhance therapies and avoid unintended sabotage to pain treatment.

Placebo, nocebo, and expectations: leveraging positive outcomes.

Do randomized clinical trials with inadequate blinding report enhanced placebo effects for intervention groups and nocebo effects for placebo groups? A protocol for a meta-epidemiological study of PDE-5 inhibitors.

Placebo and nocebo responses in randomised controlled trials of drugs applying for approval for fibromyalgia syndrome treatment: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Nonconscious activation of placebo and nocebo pain responses.

Nocebo in fibromyalgia: meta-analysis of placebo-controlled clinical trials and implications for practice.

Why medication in involuntary treatment may be less effective: the placebo/nocebo effect.

Mechanisms involved in placebo and nocebo responses and implications for drug trials.

Response to the commentary "You may (not always) experience what you expect: in search of the limits of the placebo and nocebo effect".

Induction of nocebo and placebo effects on itch and pain by verbal suggestions.

Nocebo is the enemy, not placebo. A meta-analysis of reported side effects after placebo treatment in headaches.

Disease-specific adverse events following nonlive vaccines: a paradoxical placebo effect or a nocebo phenomenon?

You may (not always) experience what you expect: in search for the limits of the placebo and nocebo effect.

New insights into the nocebo response. Research is providing clues about a phenomenon that is the exact opposite of the placebo response.

Placebo and nocebo in interventional pain management: a friend or a foe--or simply foes?

Getting the pain you expect: mechanisms of placebo, nocebo and reappraisal effects in humans.

How the number of learning trials affects placebo and nocebo responses.

Placebo/nocebo: the “biochemical” power of words and suggestions.

Placebos and nocebos--Techniques to optimize MS management?

Placebo and nocebo effects in randomized double-blind clinical trials of agents for the therapy for fatigue in patients with advanced cancer.

Widespread hyperalgesia in irritable bowel syndrome is dynamically maintained by tonic visceral impulse input and placebo/nocebo factors: evidence from human psychophysics, animal models, and neuroimaging.

[Psiconeurophysiologic bases of the placebo-nocebo phenomenon: scientific evidences that value the humanization of the doctor-patient relationship].

The potential of a placebo/nocebo effect in pharmacogenetics.

New insights into the placebo and nocebo responses.

The role of learning in nocebo and placebo effects.

Placebo analgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia--two sides of the same coin?

Placebo and nocebo effects are defined by opposite opioid and dopaminergic responses.

Placebo and Nocebo Effects in Randomized Controlled Trials: The Implications for Research and Practice.

Response to letter: Nocebo and placebo effects may not be separate in acupuncture.

Placebo and nocebo in cardiovascular health: implications for healthcare, research, and the doctor-patient relationship.

Placebo/nocebo symptom reporting in a sham herbal supplement trial.

The effects of manipulating expectations through placebo and nocebo administration on gastric tachyarrhythmia and motion-induced nausea.

The role of placebo and nocebo effects of perioperative administration of sedatives and opioids in interventional pain management.

Pain, placebo, and nocebo: epistemic, ethical, and practical issues.

[Placebo is not always effective against nocebo bacilli. The body-mind interplay still wrapped in mystery].

Cortical correlates of false expectations during pain intensity judgments--a possible manifestation of placebo/nocebo cognitions.

Understanding placebo, nocebo, and iatrogenic treatment effects.

[Nocebo effect: the other side of placebo].

Placebo and Nocebo responses, cortisol, and circulating beta-endorphin.

Conscious expectation and unconscious conditioning in analgesic, motor, and hormonal placebo/nocebo responses.

Drug-related information generates placebo and nocebo responses that modify the drug response.

Nocebo is the enemy, not placebo. A meta-analysis of reported side effects after placebo treatment in headaches.

[Placebo- and nocebo-factors in medicine and dentistry].

Effets placebo et nocebo dans le traitement de la douleur : implications cliniques. (French)

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[Placebo--an anti-pole of nocebo].

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Nocebo effects with antidepressant clinical drug trial placebos.

Conscious Expectation and Unconscious Conditioning in Analgesic, Motor, and Hormonal Placebo/Nocebo Responses.

Heart Repair: A Placebo Fix? Or A Nocebo Mix?

The role of learning in nocebo and placebo effects.

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Pain and placebo in pediatrics: A comprehensive review of laboratory and clinical findings.

Effect of placebo on ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in children.

Simple Steps Make Shots Less Scary for Kids, Nurse Says

Mechanisms and therapeutic implications of the placebo effect in neurological and psychiatric conditions.

Deconstructing Pediatric Depression Trials: An Analysis of the Effects of Expectancy and Therapeutic Contact.

Using the placebo effect to treat cold symptoms in children.

Nocebo effect in randomized clinical trials of antidepressants in children and adolescents: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Placebo effect in child and adolescent psychiatric trials.

Acetaminophen analgesia in children: placebo effect and pain resolution after tonsillectomy.

An investigation of the placebo effect and age-related factors in the report of needle pain from venipuncture in children.

Placebo effect of eutectic mixture of lidocaine and prilocaine (EMLA) cream in reducing venepuncture pain in children.

Placebo effects in children: a review.

Effect of placebo on ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in children.

Managing persisting pain in children with medical illnesses: another frontier unexplored.

Placebo by proxy: the effect of parents' beliefs on therapy for children's temper tantrums.

Biofeedback in the Treatment of Headache and Other Childhood Pain.

Melatonin Versus Placebo in Children with Autism Spectrum Conditions and Severe Sleep Problems Not Amenable to Behaviour Management Strategies: A Randomised Controlled Crossover Trial.

Placebo effect in child and adolescent psychiatric trials.

Greater Response to Placebo in Children Than in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis in Drug-Resistant Partial Epilepsy.

Placebo effects in children: a review.

Neuroplasticity: The wave of the neuroscience future.

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The best medicine.

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Placebo effect in the treatment of acute cough in infants and toddlers: a randomized clinical trial.

The nocebo effect of prenatal care.

The Power of Persuasion and the Placebo Response.

Possible Efficacy of a Creek Folk Medicine through Skin Absorption: An Object Lesson in Ethnopharmacology.

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Homeopathy: The once and future medicine.

Brain functional changes during placebo lead-in and changes in specific symptoms during pharmacotherapy for major depression.

Psychotropic placebos reduce the misinformation effect by increasing monitoring at test.

Placebo manipulations reduce hyperalgesia in neuropathic pain.

The Placebo Responder Rate in Children and Adolescents.

A two-way enriched clinical trial design: combining advantages of placebo lead-in and randomized withdrawal.

Does elimination of placebo responders in a placebo run-in increase the treatment effect in randomized clinical trials? A meta-analytic evaluation.

Changes in Brain Function (Quantitative EEG Cordance) During Placebo Lead-In and Treatment Outcomes in Clinical Trials for Major Depression.

113. Oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) variation moderates affective placebo responders in fatigued breast cancer survivors: Relevance to biological sensitivity to context.

Peripheral pulsed electromagnetic fields may reduce the placebo effect in migraine patients that do not respond to the sham intervention in a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, cross-over clinical trial.

Sleeping pills work through placebo effect and run risk of side-effects, experts warn

How a placebo reduces pain.

Are placebo run ins justified?

The impact of restrictive entry criterion during the placebo lead-in period.

Placebo run-in period in studies of depressive disorders. Clinical, heuristic and research implications.

A novel placebo lead-in behavior strategy for sertraline dosing in a depressed patient highly sensitive to medication side effects.

Outcomes of a placebo run-in period in a head and neck cancer chemoprevention trial.

Placebo run-in for antidepressant trials.

Lead-in placebo washout period.

An empirical evaluation of the placebo run-in.

Does a placebo run-in or a placebo treatment cell affect the efficacy of antidepressant medications?

Antiemetic placebo: reduce adverse drug interactions between chemotherapeutic agents and antiemetic drugs in cancer patients.

Can placebo controls reduce the number of nonresponders in clinical trials? A power-analytic perspective.

Efficient trial designs to reduce placebo requirements.

Commentary: Placebo run ins have some value.

Comparison of single-dose ibuprofen lysine, acetylsalicylic acid, and placebo for moderate-to-severe postoperative dental pain.

Hypnotic effect of methaqualone employing placebo responder elimination.

Investigating the ‘placebo personality’ outside the pain paradigm.

Who responds to placebos? Considering the "placebo personality" via a transactional model.

Does elimination of placebo responders in a placebo run-in increase the treatment effect in randomized clinical trials? A meta-analytic evaluation.

Do “placebo responders” exist?

Bayesian modelling and ROC analysis to predict placebo responders using clinical score measured in the initial weeks of treatment in depression trials.

Motivational concordance: An important mechanism in self-help therapeutic rituals involving inert (placebo) substances.

Dispositional predictors of placebo responding: A motivational interpretation of flower essence and gratitude therapy.

Reproducibility of placebo analgesia: Effect of dispositional optimism.

Development of a patient-reported assessment to identify placebo responders in a generalized anxiety disorder trial.

Hypnotic effect of methaqualone employing placebo responder elimination.

Hypnosis, hynotizability, and placebo.

[Placebo response in functional bowel disorders].

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[Placebos in clinic and research: experimental findings and theoretical concepts].

Repeated measurements of non-invasive ambulatory blood pressure: distinction between reproducibility and the proper effect of placebo.

Patient expectations in placebo-controlled randomized clinical trials.

Who responds to placebos? Considering the "placebo personality" via a transactional model.

Development of a patient-reported assessment to identify placebo responders in a generalized anxiety disorder trial.

[Placebo response in functional bowel disorders].

[Placebos in clinic and research: experimental findings and theoretical concepts].

Repeated measurements of non-invasive ambulatory blood pressure: distinction between reproducibility and the proper effect of placebo.

Pain Responder Analysis: Use of Area Under the Curve to Enhance Interpretation of Clinical Trial Results.

Pregabalin in fibromyalgia - responder analysis from individual patient data.

Investigation of Influencing Factors on Higher Placebo Response in East Asian Versus Western Clinical Trials for Partial Epilepsy: A Meta-Analysis.

“Comparable Placebo Treatment” and the Ethics of Deception.

The Placebo Phenomenon and Well-Being: Notes on the Healing Process as an Evolutionary Adaptive Trait.

The placebo response in functional dyspepsia – reanalysis of trial data.

Predictors of the placebo response in functional dyspepsia.

Constructing the placebo effect in the placebo wars: What is the way ahead?

Greater Response to Placebo in Children Than in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis in Drug-Resistant Partial Epilepsy.

Behavioral factors in the placebo response.

Ingesting Placebo

Placebo: From Pain and Analgesia to Preferences and Products.

Novel study designs to investigate the placebo response.

Baseline Predictors of Placebo Response in Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction (EIB): Pooled Regression Analysis >From Three Studies of Montelukast in EIB.

Role of μ-opioid system in the formation of memory of placebo responses.

Reactions to treatment debriefing among the participants of a placebo controlled trial.

The use of pure and impure placebo interventions in primary care - a qualitative approach.

Age effects on placebo response rates in clinical trials of acute agents for migraine: pooled analysis of rizatriptan trials in adults.

The transferable placebo effect from pain to emotion: Changes in behavior and EEG activity.

Motivational concordance: An important mechanism in self-help therapeutic rituals involving inert (placebo) substances.

Pretreatment neurophysiological and clinical characteristics of placebo responders in treatment trials for major depression.

Placebo found to cause distinct brain function changes.

Hypnotic effect of methaqualone employing placebo responder elimination.

Placebo response in binge eating disorder.

Doubly Randomized Delayed-Start Design for Enrichment Studies with Responders or Nonresponders.

Placebo effects and antidepressant medication: Implications for research and clinical care.

[Placebo response in functional bowel disorders].

The placebo effect.

Common brain changes seen in placebo, antidepressant responders.

Neuromagnetic treatment of pain in refractory carpal tunnel syndrome: An electrophysiological and placebo analysis.

Pain and the Placebo Effect.

Are the clinical effects of homoeopathy placebo effects? A meta-analysis of placebo-controlled tria

[Placebos in clinic and research: experimental findings and theoretical concepts].

Repeated measurements of non-invasive ambulatory blood pressure: distinction between reproducibility and the proper effect of placebo.

Patient expectations in placebo-controlled randomized clinical trials.

The promise of placebo power

Prepotent response inhibition predicts treatment outcome in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

The Role of Quality of Life in Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: Regulatory Issues.

Placebos and Treatment of Pain.

More placebo writings/inventions to come,

but this is all for now.

Stay tuned, if interested.

Article is for information only and is not advice of any kind,

including not medical or legal advice. Seek professionals, as needed or wanted.

Harness the Placebo Effect and Squash the Nocebo Effect! - For your own health, and that of others.

2015-01-12T11:00:00.000-06:00

Recently, I posted the first part of How to Enhance the Placebo Effect and Decrease the Nocebo Effect.

This post is a continuation - Part 2. Part 3 coming soon!

This is a "work-in-progress" Study Guide for myself - and maybe for you, if interested. Comment if you want. I'm gathering information, opinions for now. More writings/inventions on this to come! Stay tuned, if interested.

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((harness OR elucidate OR enhance OR increase OR intensify OR heighten OR magnify OR amplify OR strengthen OR build-up OR supplement OR augment OR boost OR improve OR enrich)-placebo) ((decrease OR lessen OR reduce OR minimize OR moderate)-nocebo (doctor OR nurse OR physician OR practitioner OR clinic OR hospital))

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The Placebo Effect

'Placebo Effect' Plays Games With The Mind - Daily Pres

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Placebo: real improvement at no real cost | Body & Mi

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AHJ: Placebo effect may decrease chest pain in cardiolo

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The Evolving Impact of a Placebo in a CNS Clinical Trial .

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The Biological Basis of the Placebo Effect | The Scientist

Placebo Response In Clinical Trials With Schizophrenia

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Neurobiological Mechanisms of the Placebo Effect

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The relation of emotions to placebo responses

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The Neural Bases of Placebo Effects in Anticipation

More Expensive Placebos Bring More Relief - New York Ti

The Placebo Effect, How it Complicates Parkinson's Di

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Blinding - EMGO

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Placebo run in periods | The BMJ

The double-blind variable placebo lead-in period: resul

Article: Changes in Brain Function (Quantitative EEG ...

The Placebo Responder Rate in Children and Adolescent

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Placebo run-in period in studies of depressive disorders

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Minimizing Placebo Response in Clinical Trials - IIR

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The Misunderstood Placebo.pdf - Name

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Changing placebo response dilutes antipsychotic trial power

More placebo writings/inventions to come,

but this is all for now.

Stay tuned, if interested.

Article is for information only and is not advice of any kind,

including not medical or legal advice. Seek professionals, as needed or wanted.

Wanted - Doctor to Listen and Encourage Me.

2012-04-24T08:33:00.001-05:00

"The Doctor and the Patient: Relationship, Partnership or Marriage? by Bernard S. Siegel, MD - Where can you find a doctor that will listen and encourage you?" - http://ahha.org/articles.asp?Id=10

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Tom sez - This article is the essence of mind-body healing or so I think. Maybe you can find a doctor that will indeed listen and encourage you. Good for you, if you find one.

In the meantime, try cultivating the "Doctor Within" you to listen and encourage you. When you find the Doctor Within, maybe you won't need face-to-face doctors so more.

Consider making your own Healing Machine. Ask your face-to-face doctor to help you do this. If they do, you've found a good one!

What do you think?

Forgiveness and Good Health

2012-04-20T07:49:00.003-05:00

"How forgiveness can positively affect your health - “Anger, bitterness and resentment are natural human emotions. But holding a grudge against your sister for not having arthritis, or hanging onto jealousy over a coworker for snagging your well-deserved promotion may negatively affect your health,” states an article in Arthritis Today, a consumer health magazine published by the Arthritis Foundation......Integrative medicine is just now exploring what our grandmothers have been telling us for centuries – how you feel emotionally, affects the way you feel physically. There is an entire field of study devoted to this aspect of healthcare called “psychoneuroimmunology,” which looks at how our neurological and immune functions are intrinsically linked. So how does forgiveness fit into our overall health? Does forgiveness improve our well-being?" - - http://blogs.timescolonist.com/2012/04/17/the-forgiveness-project/

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Tom sez - In my research in preparing to make The Virtual Healing Machine, I learned that forgiveness is a big part of learning. Therefore, I included words to encourage forgiveness in the self-hypnosis scripts. If interested, see the scripts on the VHM site.

It's amazing how much emotions affect us physically. We're just beginning to know about this. There's so much that could be done, but is not for various reasons. I'm hoping my work will stimulate individuals to take charge of their own health.....and encourage innovators to springboard off my work.

Happy Healing!

Need Some Money for Placebo Effect Research?

2012-04-04T08:38:00.000-05:00

Well, I don't have any extra money. I work on a shoestring - a magical shoestring that keeps me healthy - it has healing powers of it's own. No, just kidding folks! It's really my tin-foil hat that has medicinal powers. :-)

Seriously - people, companies, and governments will give you money to study the Placebo Effect. Some are listed below.

Please beware though, that some medical industries don't want the placebo effect to work and want to find out ways to diminish it. Follow your heart in your work - and "do no harm". The links below look pretty innocuous to me and seem to really want to help patients, even if it might affect their someone's margins.

NIH Research Grant - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-12-004.html - Also, if interested, learn from the researcher's results. I think all the research results are, or will be, available to the public.
Similar to above - NIH - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AT-02-002.html
Likewise - http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=72273
Also - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-12-003.html
Michael J. Fox - Parkinson's - http://www.michaeljfox.org/research_MJFFfundingPortfolio_searchableAwardedGrants_3.cfm?ID=609
NCCAM - http://nccam.nih.gov/news/2012/011012.htm
U.S. Federal Assistance - https://www.cfda.gov/?s=program&mode=form&tab=step1&id=ec9616ec04a46757cc71242e5db70b2b

If interested in finding more, you can Google these search strings -

(placebo OR nocebo)-(effect OR response) "research grant"

(placebo OR nocebo)-(effect OR response) "research grant" site:.gov

Best wishes in finding your pot o' gold, if you need it.

"Putting the placebo effect to work"

2012-04-03T16:34:00.002-05:00

"Rather than dismiss it, we should try to understand the placebo effect and harness it when we can.

For a long time, the placebo effect was held in low regard. If people responded to a suspect treatment, we said it was "just the placebo effect." The suggestion was that they had been fooled in some way, and their response was inauthentic.

But attitudes are shifting, even in conventional medical circles. Randomized trials, some of them led by researchers at the Harvard-wide Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter, have deepened the understanding of the placebo effect and its various components. Researchers have also used brain scans and other technologies to show that there may be a physiological explanation for the placebo effect in many cases. There is some danger that uncritical acceptance of the placebo effect could be used to justify useless treatments. But more important is the growing recognition that what we call the placebo effect may involve changes in brain chemistry — and that the placebo effect may be an integral part of good medical care and an ally that should be embraced by doctors and patients alike......" - http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Health_Letter/2012/April/putting-the-placebo-effect-to-work (full article here)

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Tom sez - I think the placebo effect is an untapped resource, much like hypnosis. That's why I spend so much time writing and inventing around these phenomena.

For the medical practitioner, healer, biomedical engineer who is concerned about "making it work", do not be afraid. That's the beauty of the placebo effect, it doesn't have to work according to science and medicine. The "working" part is that the patient thinks it works.

So make your doctor's coats into long flowing robes to increase your effect on the patient, but use your placebo powers wisely. Please avoid the nocebo effect. Your doctor's coat and nurse's uniform has great power. Example - white coat syndrome. If interested in engaging mind-body healing, study the old time medicine shows and pick up some tips.

Biomedical engineers - please consider embellishing medical devices with spooky powers, magical effects, etc. They don't have to work but it will increase the placebo effect of the device. If you're dry for ideas go to the Museum of Quackery - http://www.museumofquackery.com/

I predict there will be an upsurge of Mind-Body Healing Machines for the public to use. I foresee caring doctors using such devices.

Stay tuned to my progress, if interested. Comment, if you want.

How Does Hypnosis Work? What is Hypnotherapy? What about Self-Hypnosis?

2012-03-14T07:59:00.001-05:00

If you're a doctor, researcher, or technical person - here is a site that shows how hypnosis works in clinical situations...e.g. depression, irritable bowel syndrome, etc.

If you're a patient and find an article you like, take it to your doctor. See what they think. If you don't like the answer you get, explore the topic on your own, and find another doctor or professional hypnotherapist. You are in charge of your own health and happiness. Find a way that works for you.

Your local library can also help you get free copies. Lots of these are also probably on the Internet.

You might find this an excellent networking tool, also. Find the articles you like and contact the authors. Find places that do your kind of research.

Please see link below...

Hypnosis research papers - http://www.hypnosisandsuggestion.org/hypnosis-research-papers.html

Contact with the organization associated with the link below might help you also.

Good Luck and Best Wishes!

The Placebo Effect: How the Subconscious Fits in

2012-03-07T08:07:00.000-06:00

"The Placebo Effect: How the Subconscious Fits in

J. L. Mommaerts, Dirk Devroey

Source Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Volume 55, Number 1, Winter 2012
pp. 43-58 | 10.1353/pbm.2012.0005

Abstract

Abstract:

The placebo effect is very well known, being replicated in many scientific studies. At the same time, its exact mechanisms still remain unknown. Quite a few hypothetical explanations for the placebo effect have been suggested, including faith, belief, hope, classical conditioning, conscious/subconscious expectation, endorphins, and the meaning response. This article argues that all these explanations may boil down to autosuggestion, in the sense of "communication with the subconscious." An important implication of this is that the placebo effect can in principle be used effectively without the placebo itself, through a direct use of autosuggestion. The benefits of such a strategy are clear: fewer side effects from medications, huge cost savings, no deception of patients, relief of burden on the physician's time, and healing in domains where medication or other therapies are problematic." - https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/perspectives_in_biology_and_medicine/v055/55.1.mommaerts.pdf

(I bolded/underlined the words that caught my eye above...)

Tom sez....Why aren't there many articles on combining Hypnosis and The Placebo Effect....and make an easy to use self help tool for the world? Am I the only one working on such a thing with The Virtual Healing Machine? Please build on my work and make something better.

Happy Day!

Glove Anesthesia in Hypnosis - Medical Hypnotherapy Pain management

2012-03-07T07:43:00.000-06:00

Glove Anesthesia is one of the little used tools for pain management. Hypnosis is low-cost or free and can be effective in many situations. This is a good video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfmpSmyio-Y

For more information, please see below and/or a professional hypnotherapist in your locality....

" glove anesthesia, n a hypnotic technique used to relieve pain. The patient's hand is made to feel numb; the numbness then acts as an anesthetic by transferring the numbness to any other body part that it touches. Jonas: Mosby's Dictionary of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. (c) 2005, Elsevier." - http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/glove+anesthesia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnosis - explains hypnosis, hypnotherapy, self-hypnosis
http://www.dicksutphen.com/html/gloveanesthesia.html - shows script

I hope you find pain relief in something, whatever works for you. Best Wishes.

Disclaimer - This article is for informational use only and is not medical advice.

Dr. Oz Introduces the World to Hypnosis

2012-03-07T07:21:00.000-06:00

"Recently on the Dr. Oz show, hypnosis was brought to the public as the easiest, fastest, most effective way to lose weight and change your bad habits. Hypnosis has been around for hundreds of years, but Dr. Oz has made it mainstream." - http://www.prlog.org/11815368-dr-oz-introduces-the-world-to-hypnosis.html

The "Ugly Step Sister of Medicine" is back!!! Stay tuned on this blog as I and others coax this little used medical tool out of hiding.

Yes, it is unpopular, yet still effective. See what the American Medical Association (AMA) and other professionals say about hypnosis at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnotherapy#Systematic_reviews. Sherman, start up the Way Back Machine to see back to 1958.

Stay tuned for how others combine Hypnosis with the Placebo Effect to make a superb healing tool. If you want a start, please see The Virtual Healing Machine associated with this blog.

Best Wishes to you all and a very good night.