http://mindhacks.com/2008/06/05/the-meaning-response/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Fri, 24 May 2013 17:03:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2008/06/05/the-meaning-response/#comment-6616 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:33:03 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/the-meaning-response/#comment-6616 The link is broken. Do you mean – http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/05/placebo_is_not_what_.html
Great post by the way. The complexities of the placebo effect fascinate me. I can’t help thinking that if we understood it and could make use of it effectively, medicine would look very different from today.
You may be interested in my own musing on the placebo effect in relation to dyslexia ‘cures’ like Dore: Can Dyslexia Be Cured by the Placebo Effect? [ http://www.myomancy.com/2008/02/can-dyslexia-be-cured-by-the-placebo-effect ]
Chris
p.s. I’m getting an “Internal Server Error” when posting this comment so I not sure its getting through.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2008/06/05/the-meaning-response/#comment-6615 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:32:14 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/the-meaning-response/#comment-6615 The link is broken. Do you mean – http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/05/placebo_is_not_what_.html
Great post by the way. The complexities of the placebo effect fascinate me. I can’t help thinking that if we understood it and could make use of it effectively, medicine would look very different from today.
You may be interested in my own musing on the placebo effect in relation to dyslexia ‘cures’ like Dore: Can Dyslexia Be Cured by the Placebo Effect? [ http://www.myomancy.com/2008/02/can-dyslexia-be-cured-by-the-placebo-effect ]

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2008/06/05/the-meaning-response/#comment-6614 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:31:52 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/the-meaning-response/#comment-6614 The link is broken. Do you mean – http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/05/placebo_is_not_what_.html
Great post by the way. The complexities of the placebo effect fascinate me. I can’t help thinking that if we understood it and could make use of it effectively, medicine would look very different from today.
You may be interested in my own musing on the placebo effect in relation to dyslexia ‘cures’ like Dore: Can Dyslexia Be Cured by the Placebo Effect? [ http://www.myomancy.com/2008/02/can-dyslexia-be-cured-by-the-placebo-effect ]

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2008/06/05/the-meaning-response/#comment-6613 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:14:35 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/the-meaning-response/#comment-6613 According to the most revised versions of the Declaration of Helsinki (ethical guidelines for research on human subjects)the use of placebo is restricted because incur in a violation of the equipoise principle (the intervention is believed to be inferior)
My question is, why is there a cascade of studies about placebo? it is because we can learn something else, about the brain and the “meaning” it pose, or is there a veiled battle against pharmaceutical industry?

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2008/06/05/the-meaning-response/#comment-6612 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:13:56 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/the-meaning-response/#comment-6612 According to the most revised versions of the Declaration of Helsinki (ethical guidelines for research on human subjects)the use of placebo is restricted because incur in a violation of the equipoise principle (the intervention is believed to be inferior)
My question is, why is there a cascade of studies about placebo? it is because we can learn something else, about the brain and the “meaning” it pose, or is there a veiled battle against pharmaceutical industry?

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2008/06/05/the-meaning-response/#comment-6611 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:13:30 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/the-meaning-response/#comment-6611 According to the most revised versions of the Declaration of Helsinki (ethical guidelines for research on human subjects)the use of placebo is restricted because incur in a violation of the equipoise principle (the intervention is believed to be inferior)
My question is, why is there a cascade of studies about placebo? it is because we can learn something else, about the brain and the “meaning” it pose, or is there a veiled battle against pharmaceutical industry?

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2008/06/05/the-meaning-response/#comment-6610 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:12:53 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/the-meaning-response/#comment-6610 According to the most revised versions of the Declaration of Helsinki (ethical guidelines for research on human subjects)the use of placebo is restricted because incur in a violation of the equipoise principle (the intervention is believed to be inferior)
My question is, why is there a cascade of studies about placebo? it is because we can learn something else, about the brain and the “meaning” it pose, or is there a veiled battle against pharmaceutical industry?

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2008/06/05/the-meaning-response/#comment-6609 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:11:24 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/the-meaning-response/#comment-6609 According to the most revised versions of the Declaration of Helsinki (ethical guidelines for research on human subjects)the use of placebo is restricted because incur in a violation of the equipoise principle (the intervention is believed to be inferior)
My question is, why is there a cascade of studies about placebo? it is because we can learn something else, about the brain and the “meaning” it pose, or is there a veiled battle against pharmaceutical industry?

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2008/06/05/the-meaning-response/#comment-6608 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:10:55 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/the-meaning-response/#comment-6608 According to the most revised versions of the Declaration of Helsinki (ethical guidelines for research on human subjects)the use of placebo is restricted because incur in a violation of the equipoise principle (the intervention is believed to be inferior)
My question is, why is there a cascade of studies about placebo? it is because we can learn something else, about the brain and the “meaning” it pose, or is there a veiled battle against pharmaceutical industry?

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