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Mind over matter: Exploring the efficacy of placebo painkillers
Faith, Kaitlyn
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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/125453
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- Title
- Mind over matter: Exploring the efficacy of placebo painkillers
- Author(s)
- Faith, Kaitlyn
- Issue Date
- 2023
- Keyword(s)
- placebo effect
- pain management
- Abstract
- The Placebo Effect is defined by Oxford Dictionary as, "a beneficial effect produced by a placebo drug or treatment, which cannot be attributed to the properties of the placebo itself, and must therefore be due to the patient's belief in that treatment". Usage of the placebo effect is rarely heard in pharmaceutical settings until recently. Many scientists have found that using the placebo effect can "mimic the action of active treatments" and "facilitate the activation of pain and nonpain control systems" in our bodies (Colloca, n.d.). researcher Markus Rütgen theorizes the body can be its own painkiller, without the actual use of a painkiller. Delving deeper into the power of placebo painkillers will further substantiate the hypothesis, "empathy for pain is partially grounded in first-hand pain by suggesting that this also applies to the underlying opioidergic neurochemical processes" (Rütgen, 2018).
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Undergraduate Neuroscience Society
- Type of Resource
- text
- Language
- eng
- Copyright and License Information
- Copyright 2023 Kaitlyn Faith
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