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Placebo Effect
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The activity I chose to write about was on Dr. Walter A. Brown’s article in Scientific American about placebos and their effect on the patients. His article described what a placebo is and if it is ethical for doctors to prescribe this “treatment” to their patients.
Dr. Brown, wh ....
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....ctors in treating depression. He found that the persons with short-term depression responded more favorably to the placebo than those with long-term depression.
Other doctors also performed “placebo experiments” to realize if it really works. One example would be of the experiments led by Edmunds G. Diamond of the University of Kansas Medical Center in the 1950’s. His research involved the surgery to treat angina pectoris. He had a set of 18 patients suffering from this ail.... |
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