Placebo Effects - Benedetti, Fabrizio

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The patient's brain: setting the stage for understanding placebo effects; 1 A brief evolutionary account of medical care; 2 Emergence and development of scientific medicine; 3 Feeling sick: A combination of bottom-up and top-down events; 4 Seeking relief: The activation of motivational and reward circuits; 5 Meeting the therapist: A look into trust, hope, empathy and compassion mechanisms; 6 The brain of the demented patient; Placebo effects: General concepts and mechanisms; 7 The traditional concept of placebo; 8 A modern view of placebo and placebo-related effects; 9 Placing placebo effects within the context of the doctor-patient relationship as a defence mechanism; Disease-based classification of placebo effects - Most studied conditions; 10 Pain; 11 Diseases of the nervous system; 12 Mental and behavioural disorders; 13 Immune and endocrine systems; Disease-based classification of placebo effects - Less studied conditions; 14 Cardiovascular and respiratory system; 15 Gastrointestinal and genitourinary disorders; 16 Special medical conditions and therapeutic interventions; Clinical, ethical and methodological considerations; 17 Clinical-ethical implications and applications; 18 How to run a placebo study: A closer look into complex experimental designs; Beyond the healing context; 19 Beyond the healing context; 20 Everyday life