Identified Placebo Treatment?

Vortioxetine versus placebo for treatment of major depressive disorder

Introduction: Major depressive disorder is a common mental condition associated with substantial morbidity and economic burden. Approved by the FDA in September 2013 for treatment of episodes of major depressive disorder, Vortioxetine is one of the newer options available in this important area of therapeutics. Materials and methods: A comprehensive literature search (PubMed, the Cochrane libr...

[Placebo in the pain treatment].

Use of medical preparations having no specific pharmacological activity or dummy procedures administered to patients is known as placebo. Such maneuvers are important in the pain treatment and clinical studies investigating pain mechanisms. Several recent studies have shown that placebo treatment produces measurable psychophysiological effects, characterized by changes in specific brain functio...

Surgical treatment of incidentally identified pancreatic masses.

INTRODUCTION With the improved quality and widespread availability of diagnostic abdominal imaging, incidental intra-abdominal lesions (incidentalomas) are being increasingly identified. Our objective was to characterize the clinical features of asymptomatic patients with incidentally discovered pancreatic lesions and to assess the accuracy of preoperative radiologic diagnosis against the final...

Treatment Choice When Treatment Response Is Partially Identified

Yoga: Better Treatment or Better Placebo?

try to cognitively suppress by conscious attempts to distract themselves via motor restlessness or impulsive behavior. This combined with the hyperarousal symptoms [criterion D of DSM IV] makes differentiation from attention-deficit disorder difficult. Possibly, when pre-existing ADHD is a vulnerability factor to develop PTSD. Similar mechanisms hold good for other comorbid disorders also. In p...