Annu Rev Psychol April 2008 PMID 17550344

A comprehensive review of the placebo effect: recent advances and current thought.

Donald D Price, Damien G Finniss, Fabrizio Benedetti

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The understanding of the placebo effect has shifted from viewing it as just the inert substance to seeing it as a complex simulation of therapeutic intervention that involves different mechanisms depending on the situation.
Placebo responses can be driven by expectations, emotions, and motivation, and they have real neurobiological effects on the brain and body, not just biases.
Some placebo effects result from unconscious processes like classical conditioning, impacting functions such as immune response, and recognizing these mechanisms has important implications for clinical trials and ethical clinical practice.]

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