Placebo Publications July 2020

Today we present 31 new placebo and nocebo research papers, comments and abstracts identified during July 2020. As usual, they are based on new PUBMED publication using the search terms „placebo“ and „nocebo“ and are hand-selected from more than 1043 new publications during the preceding month. Previously published monthly updates can be found in our archive. Todays selection as well as all previously identified papers will also go into our placebo research library that currently contains more than 4,500 relevant papers. If you would like to get access to the full database, please register for our newsletter and provide us with your email address and affiliation.

Akroyd, A., Gunn, K. N., Rankin, S., Douglas, M., Kleinstauber, M., Rief, W., & Petrie, K. J. (2020).
Optimizing patient expectations to improve therapeutic response to medical treatment: A randomized controlled trial of iron infusion therapy. Br J Health Psychol. doi: 10.1111/bjhp.12435
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32519431

Banik, R. K. (2020).
Therapeutic benefits of placebo surgery and challenges in neuromodulation research. Pain, 161(8), 1937-1939. doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001910
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32701852

Corbin, W. R., Hartman, J. D., Bruening, A. B., & Fromme, K. (2020).
Contextual influences on subjective alcohol response. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol. doi:10.1037/pha0000415
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32673048

DeMaria, A. (2020).
How important are placebo controls in clinical trials of interventional procedures? Eur Heart J, 41(27), 2569-2570. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa558
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32666098

Forbes, R. B., McCarron, M., & Cardwell, C. R. (2020).
Efficacy and Contextual (Placebo) Effects of CGRP Antibodies for Migraine: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. doi:10.1111/head.13907
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32668023

Guevarra, D. A., Moser, J. S., Wager, T. D., & Kross, E. (2020).
Placebos without deception reduce self-report and neural measures of emotional distress. Nat Commun, 11(1), 3785. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17654-y
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32728026

Haas, J. W., Rief, W., Glombiewski, J. A., Winkler, A., & Doering, B. K. (2020).
Expectation-induced placebo effect on acute sadness in women with major depression: An experimental investigation. J Affect Disord, 274, 920-928. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2020.05.056
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32664033

Hansen, E., Zech, N., & Benson, S. (2020).
[Nocebo, informed consent and doctor-patient communication]. doi:10.1007/s00115-020-00963-4
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32728796

Hayashi, Y., Shirotori, K., Kosugi, A., Kumada, S., Leong, K. H., Okada, K., & Onuki, Y. (2020).
A Precise Prediction Method for the Properties of API-Containing Tablets Based on Data from Placebo Tablets. Pharmaceutics, 12(7). doi:10.3390/pharmaceutics12070601
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32605318

Horbelt, T., Hetze, S., Schedlowski, M., & Luckemann, L. (2020).
[The learned placebo response in the immune system]. Nervenarzt. doi:10.1007/s00115-020-00945-6
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32642946

Hu, S., Chen, J., Li, Y., Shao, Y., Zhao, X., Lou, S., Pan, W., Yao, P., Sun, W., Lu, L., Tang, X., & Sun, H. (2020).
The influence of placebo administration on the first- night effect in patients with insomnia disorder. Sleep Med, 72, 138-143. doi:10.1016/j.sleep.2020.03.002
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32619848

Kaptchuk, T. J., Hemond, C. C., & Miller, F. G. (2020).
Placebos in chronic pain: evidence, theory, ethics, and use in clinical practice. BMJ, 370, m1668. doi:10.1136/bmj.m1668
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32690477

Kimball, A. B. (2020).
High placebo rates in clinical trials: is the problem scoring systems or drug efficacy? J Am Acad Dermatol. doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2020.07.040
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32682883

Kirby, N., Shepherd, V., Howick, J., Betteridge, S., & Hood, K. (2020).
Nocebo effects and participant information leaflets: evaluating information provided on adverse effects in UK clinical trials. Trials, 21(1), 658. doi:10.1186/s13063-020-04591-w
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32680561

Klinger, R., Schwartz, M., & Bingel, U. (2020).
[Placebo effects in pain therapy]. Nervenarzt. doi:10.1007/s00115-020-00942-9
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32642945

Kuperman, P., Talmi, D., Katz, N., & Treister, R. (2020).
Certainty in ascending sensory signals – The unexplored driver of analgesic placebo response. Med Hypotheses, 143, 110113. doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2020.110113
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32721807

Lee, G. J., & Suhr, J. A. (2020).
Expectancy effects of placebo neurofeedback in ADHD treatment seekers: A neuropsychological investigation. doi:10.1037/neu0000689
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32730049

Lewis, R. A., Cornblath, D. R., Hartung, H. P., Sobue, G., Lawo, J. P., Mielke, O., Durn, B. L., Bril, V., Merkies, I. S. J., Bassett, P., Cleasby, A., van Schaik, I. N., & PATH study group.(2020).
Placebo effect in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy: The PATH study and a systematic review. J Peripher Nerv Syst. doi:10.1111/jns.12402
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32627277

Lu, L., Li, H., Mills, J. A., Schroeder, H., Mossman, S. A., Varney, S. T., Cecil, K. M., Huang, X., Gong, Q., Levine, A., DelBello, M. P., Sweeny, J. A., & Strawn, J. R. (2020).
Greater Dynamic and Lower Static Functional Brain Connectivity Prospectively Predict Placebo Response in Pediatric Generalized Anxiety Disorder. J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol. doi:10.1089/cap.2020.0024
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32721213

Murray, E. J. (2020).
Demystifying the Placebo Effect. Am J Epidemiol. doi:10.1093/aje/kwaa162
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32719871

Okusogu, C., Wang, Y., Akintola, T., Haycock, N. R., Raghuraman, N., Greenspan, J. D., Phillips, J., Dorsey, S. G., Campbell, C. M., & Colloca, L. (2020).
Placebo hypoalgesia: racial differences. Pain. doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001876
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32205528

Palmisano, A. N., & Astur, R. S. (2020).
Nicotine Facilitation of Conditioned Place Preference to Food Reward in Humans. Subst Use Misuse, 1-9. doi:10.1080/10826084.2020.1795682
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32720546

Power, A., Brown, C. A., Sivan, M., Lenton, A., Rainey, T., El-Deredy, W., Jones, A. K. P., & Watson, A. (2020).
Individuals with chronic pain have the same response to placebo analgesia as healthy controls in terms of magnitude and reproducibility. doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001966
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32639369

Rebstock, L., Schafer, L. N., Kube, T., Ehmke, V., & Rief, W. (2020).
Placebo prevents rumination: An experimental study. J Affect Disord, 274, 1152-1160. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2020.06.010
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32663945

Rief, W. (2020).
[The role of placebo and nocebo mechanisms in depressive diseases and their treatment]. doi:10.1007/s00115-020-00940-x
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32607602

Schemer, L., Rief, W., & Glombiewski, J. A. (2020).
Treatment Expectations Towards Different Pain Management Approaches: Two Perspectives. J Pain Res, 13, 1725-1736. doi:10.2147/JPR.S247177
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32753946

Schone-Seifert, B. (2020).
[Placebos and placeboids in clinical practice: conceptual and ethical considerations]. doi:10.1007/s00115-020-00943-8
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32617632

Sullivan, C. J., Eustace, S. J., & Kavanagh, E. C. (2020).
Placebo effects in musculoskeletal radiology procedures. Skeletal Radiol. doi:10.1007/s00256-020-03542-5
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32661655

Vase, L. (2020).
Can insights from placebo and nocebo mechanisms studies improve the randomized controlled trial? Scand J Pain, 20(3), 451-467. doi:10.1515/sjpain-2019-0183
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32609651

Wells, R. E., Collier, J., Posey, G., Morgan, A., Auman, T., Strittmatter, B., Magalhaes, R., Adler-Neal, A., McHaffie, J. G., & Zeidan, F. (2020).
Attention to breath sensations does not engage endogenous opioids to reduce pain. doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001865
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32168197

Yeung, V. W., Geers, A. L., & Colloca, L. (2020).
Erratum to: Merely Possessing a Placebo Analgesic Improves Analgesia Similar to Using the Placebo Analgesic. Ann Behav Med. doi:10.1093/abm/kaaa035
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32621737

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