Placebo effect

In modern medicine, the placebo response or placebo effect has often been regarded as a nuisance in basic research and particularly in clinical research. The latest scientific evidence has demonstrated, however, that the placebo effect and the nocebo effect, the negative effects of placebo, stem from highly active processes in the brain that are mediated by psychological mechanisms such as expectation and conditioning. These processes have been described in some detail for many diseases and treatments, and we now know that they can represent both strength and vulnerability in the course of a disease as well as in the response to a therapy.

i am expecting your valuable opinion regarding placebo efffects,if you have any personalr clinical expereience regarding placebo please post it.

What are your own opinions and knowledge on the placebo effect Sencajal?

The statements you provided in your post are the work of a Enck P, Benedetti F, & Schedlowski M. review article "New insights into the placebo and nocebo responses." published in Neuron (2008) vol 59(2): p195-206.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/18667148

Please credit the sources of any work by other people that you quote in your posts.

Sorry Mr.Frace i forgot to attach the link anyway thankds for your advice. Placebo effects will be more useful in psychological disorders. Why i mentioned about that paper is they have described about the negative effects of placebo. I agree thier view. And i am expecting  the opinion of scietist solution members about placebo`s negartive effect.