Placebo Effects in Neurologic Disease

Natalie Witek is at Rush Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Program, USA Professor and Associate Chairman, Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, IL Professor of Neurological Science Glenn Stebbins is at Rush Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Program, USA

Part 1: Background and methods in placebo





Better than nothing: A historical account of placebos and placebo effects from modern to contemporary medicine
Marco Annoni

Determinants of placebo effects
Sharlet Anderson and Glenn T. Stebbins

Strategies to minimize placebo effects in research investigations
Filipe B Rodrigues and Joaquim J Ferreira

Maximizing placebo response in neurological clinical practice
Louise-Laure Mariani and Jean-Christophe Corvol

Statistical methods in handling placebo effect
Rema Raman

Nocebo and lessebo effects
Tiago A. Mestre

Deception and the ethics of placebo
A. Jon Stoessl

Part 2: Placebo response in specific disease populations

Placebo effects in pain
Luana Colloca

Placebo responses in Parkinson's disease
Jau-Shin Lou

Placebo effect in subjects with cognitive impairment
Kaori Ito and Klaus Romero

Placebo in epilepsy


Daniel M. Goldenholz and Shira R. Goldenholz