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Author:   Luana Colloca (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA) ,  Magne Arve Flaten (Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø, Norway) ,  Karin Meissner (Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Muenchen, Germany)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 27.60cm
Weight:   1.130kg
ISBN:  

9780123979285

ISBN 10:   0123979285
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   13 November 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Preface 1. Historical Aspects of Placebo Analgesia 2. Neurochemistry of Placebo Analgesia: Opioids, Cannabinoids and Cholecystokinin 3. Placebo Analgesia in Rodents 4. Molecular Mechanisms of Placebo Responses in Humans 5. How Does EEG Contribute to Our Understanding of the Placebo Response? 6. Spinal Mechanisms of Placebo Analgesia and Nocebo Hyperalgesia: Descending Inhibitory and Facilitatory Influences 7. Spinal and Supraspinal Mechanisms of Placebo Analgesia 8. Positive and Negative Emotions and Placebo Analgesia 9. Placing Placebo in Normal Brain Function with Neuroimaging 10. Brain Predictors of Individual Differences in Placebo Responding 11. Placebo Responses, Antagonistic Responses, and Homeostasis 12. Placebo Analgesia, Nocebo Hyperalgesia, and Acupuncture 13. The Relevance of Placebo and Nocebo Mechanisms for Analgesic Treatments 14. How Placebo Responses Are Formed: From Bench to Bedside 15. Methodologic Aspects of Placebo Research 16. Balanced Placebo Design, Active Placebos, and Other Design Features for Identifying, Minimilizing and Characterizing the Placebo Response 17. Psychological Processes that can Bias Responses to Placebo Treatment for Pain 18. Against ""Placebo."" The Case for Changing our Language, adn for the Meaning Response 19. Placebo Effects in Complementary and Alternative Medicine: The Self-Healing Response 20. Conceptualizations and Magnitudes of Placebo Analgesia Effects Across Meta-Analyses and Experimental Studies 21. The Contribution of Desire, Expectation, and Reduced Negative Emotions to Placebo Anti-Hyperalgesia in Irritable Bowel Syndrome 22. The Wound that Heals: Placebo, Pain and Surgery 23. What Are the Best Placebo Interventions for the Treatment of Pain? 24. How Communication between Clinicians and Patients may Impact Pain Perception 25. Nocebos in Daily Clinical Practice 26. The Potential of the Analgesic Placebo Effect in Clinical Practice - Recommendations for Pain Management 27. Placebo and Nocebo: Ethical Challenges and Solutions"

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Colloca.and coeditors Flaten and Meissner present 27 chapters of research examining the placebo effect on pain and the key mechanistic advances and impact of these findings for clinical researchers and health practitioners. Neuroscience, psychology, pain, and other specialists from Europe, Australia, the US, and China describe the mechanisms underlying placebo-induced mediation and modulation of pain, including historical aspects, neurochemistry, animal models,. --Reference & Research Book News, December 2013

.this book functions as a valuable source for developing knowledge and tools to improve educational and treatment approaches.What makes this book outstanding is its arrangement of concepts in an easy-to-read, interesting format. While other books may present similar topics and themes, this one is unprecedented because it is thorough, current, and clinically relevant and demonstrates the authority of its authors in an appealing manner. --Doody.com, March 21, 2014 Colloca.and coeditors Flaten and Meissner present 27 chapters of research examining the placebo effect on pain and the key mechanistic advances and impact of these findings for clinical researchers and health practitioners. Neuroscience, psychology, pain, and other specialists from Europe, Australia, the US, and China describe the mechanisms underlying placebo-induced mediation and modulation of pain, including historical aspects, neurochemistry, animal models,. --Reference & Research Book News, December 2013

...this book functions as a valuable source for developing knowledge and tools to improve educational and treatment approaches...What makes this book outstanding is its arrangement of concepts in an easy-to-read, interesting format. While other books may present similar topics and themes, this one is unprecedented because it is thorough, current, and clinically relevant and demonstrates the authority of its authors in an appealing manner. --Doody.com, March 21, 2014 Colloca...and coeditors Flaten and Meissner present 27 chapters of research examining the placebo effect on pain and the key mechanistic advances and impact of these findings for clinical researchers and health practitioners. Neuroscience, psychology, pain, and other specialists from Europe, Australia, the US, and China describe the mechanisms underlying placebo-induced mediation and modulation of pain, including historical aspects, neurochemistry, animal models,... --Reference & Research Book News, December 2013

Author Information

Professor of Biological Psychology and Depatment Chair of Psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Dr. Flaten’s reserach focuses on biological psychology, psychology of learning, behavioral medicine, and pain. He serves as a board member for European Psychologist and European Journal of Behavior Analysis and served as Chair for the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Imaging in Neuroscience 2007-2009. Dr. Flaten chaired the 2011 symposium on placebo and pain at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting.

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