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Identifying Placebo Effects With Data From Clinical Trials, Anup Malani Jan 2006

Identifying Placebo Effects With Data From Clinical Trials, Anup Malani

Anup Malani

A medical treatment is said to have placebo effects if patients who are optimistic about the treatment respond better to the treatment. This paper proposes a simple test for placebo effects. Instead of comparing the treatment and control arms of a single trial, one should compare the treatment arms of two trials with different probabilities of assignment to treatment. If there are placebo effects, patients in the higher-probability trial will experience better outcomes simply because they believe that there is a greater chance of receiving treatment. This paper finds evidence of placebo effects in trials of antiulcer and cholesterol-lowering drugs.


From Faculty For Undergraduate Neuroscience: Encouraging Innovation In Undergraduate Neuroscience Education By Supporting Student Research And Faculty Development, Eric Wiertelak, J. C. Hardwick, M. Kerchner, B. Lom, J. J. Ramirez Jan 2006

From Faculty For Undergraduate Neuroscience: Encouraging Innovation In Undergraduate Neuroscience Education By Supporting Student Research And Faculty Development, Eric Wiertelak, J. C. Hardwick, M. Kerchner, B. Lom, J. J. Ramirez

Eric Wiertelak

No abstract provided.


Behavioral And Neurochemical Responses To Cocaine In Periadolescent And Adult Rats, Laura O'Dell Jan 2006

Behavioral And Neurochemical Responses To Cocaine In Periadolescent And Adult Rats, Laura O'Dell

Laura Elena O'Dell

No abstract provided.


Extended Access To Nicotine Self-Administration Leads To Dependence: Circadian Measures, Withdrawal Measures, And Extinction Behavior In Rats, Laura O'Dell Jan 2006

Extended Access To Nicotine Self-Administration Leads To Dependence: Circadian Measures, Withdrawal Measures, And Extinction Behavior In Rats, Laura O'Dell

Laura Elena O'Dell

No abstract provided.


Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Within The Central Nucleus Of The Amygdala Mediates Enhanced Ethanol Self-Administration In Ethanol-Dependent Rats During Withdrawal., Laura O'Dell Jan 2006

Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Within The Central Nucleus Of The Amygdala Mediates Enhanced Ethanol Self-Administration In Ethanol-Dependent Rats During Withdrawal., Laura O'Dell

Laura Elena O'Dell

No abstract provided.


Biphasic Alterations In Serotonin1b (5-Ht1b) Receptor Function During Abstinence From Extended Cocaine Self-Administration, Laura O'Dell Jan 2006

Biphasic Alterations In Serotonin1b (5-Ht1b) Receptor Function During Abstinence From Extended Cocaine Self-Administration, Laura O'Dell

Laura Elena O'Dell

No abstract provided.


Diminished Nicotine Withdrawal In Adolescent Rats: Implications For Vulnerability To Addiction, Laura O'Dell Jan 2006

Diminished Nicotine Withdrawal In Adolescent Rats: Implications For Vulnerability To Addiction, Laura O'Dell

Laura Elena O'Dell

No abstract provided.


Unlimited Access To Heroin Self-Administration: Independent Motivational Markers Of Opiate Dependence, Laura O'Dell Jan 2006

Unlimited Access To Heroin Self-Administration: Independent Motivational Markers Of Opiate Dependence, Laura O'Dell

Laura Elena O'Dell

No abstract provided.


Functional Connectivity In A Baseline Resting-State Network In Autism, Vladimir Cherkassky, Rajesh Kana, Timothy Keller, Marcel Just Dec 2005

Functional Connectivity In A Baseline Resting-State Network In Autism, Vladimir Cherkassky, Rajesh Kana, Timothy Keller, Marcel Just

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.


Brain Correlates Of Discourse Processing: An Fmri Investigation Of Irony And Conventional Metaphor Comprehension, Zohar Eviatar, Marcel Adam Just Dec 2005

Brain Correlates Of Discourse Processing: An Fmri Investigation Of Irony And Conventional Metaphor Comprehension, Zohar Eviatar, Marcel Adam Just

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.


Sentence Comprehension In Autism: Thinking In Pictures With Decreased Functional Connectivity, Rajesh K. Kana, Timothy A. Keller, Vladimir L. Cherkassky, Nancy J. Minshew, Marcel Adam Just Dec 2005

Sentence Comprehension In Autism: Thinking In Pictures With Decreased Functional Connectivity, Rajesh K. Kana, Timothy A. Keller, Vladimir L. Cherkassky, Nancy J. Minshew, Marcel Adam Just

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.


Neural Basis Of Dyslexia: A Comparison Between Dyslexic And Non-Dyslexic Children Equated For Reading Ability, Fumiko Hoeft, Arvel Hernandez, Glenn Mcmillon, Heather Taylor-Hill, Jennifer L. Martindale, Ann Meyler, Timothy A. Keller, Wai Ting Siok, Gayle K. Deutsch, Marcel Adam Just, Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli, John D. E. Gabrieli Dec 2005

Neural Basis Of Dyslexia: A Comparison Between Dyslexic And Non-Dyslexic Children Equated For Reading Ability, Fumiko Hoeft, Arvel Hernandez, Glenn Mcmillon, Heather Taylor-Hill, Jennifer L. Martindale, Ann Meyler, Timothy A. Keller, Wai Ting Siok, Gayle K. Deutsch, Marcel Adam Just, Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli, John D. E. Gabrieli

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.