The principal aim of this study was to determine the effects of short-term (28 days) pyruvate supplementation on body composition in young healthy men. Twenty-two young (mean age, 22.2 ± 2.7 years) male soccer players were allocated to two randomly ...
Psychophysiological Aspects of the Placebo Effect: Conclusions on the Interaction Betwen Patient and TherapistAbstract: Placebo effects are the result of complex interrelationships within the pain-processing system and are based on two main mechanisms: ...
Is Neurofeedback Training an Efficacious Treatment for ADHD? A Review of Recent FindingsNeurofeedback training (NF) for the treatment of children with ADHD has found increasing acceptance. Until recently, methodologically satisfactory studies on NF ...
Abstract. The effects of 12 hr nicotine administration and abstinence on stress-induced cardiovascular reactivity were assessed within Light/Intermittent cigarette smokers and Habitual cigarette smokers. One hundred thirty-two male smokers ...
Antidepressant medication is generally considered the primary treatment for major depressive disorders (MDD), but antidepressant treatment has recently approached a crisis with shrinking specific effects and growing placebo responses in current trials. ...
Antidepressants are supposed to work by fixing a chemical imbalance, specifically, a lack of serotonin in the brain. Indeed, their supposed effectiveness is the primary evidence for the chemical imbalance theory. But analyses of the published data and the ...
Recent findings from placebo research corroborate the evidence that the placebo effect represents a promising model to shed new light on brain-mind-body interactions. In particular, this research has partially elucidated the role of how patients’ ...
Expectation induced by verbal suggestions is known to be a central mechanism in the generation of the placebo response in different physiological and pathological conditions. Here, we analyze the impact of different verbal suggestions in an experimental ...
According to experimental and clinical evidence, the experiences of previous treatments are carried over to different therapeutic approaches and impair the outcome of subsequent treatments. In this behavioral pilot study we used a change in administration ...