 Placebos
"Placebos" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Any dummy medication or treatment. Although placebos originally were medicinal preparations having no specific pharmacological activity against a targeted condition, the concept has been extended to include treatments or procedures, especially those administered to control groups in clinical trials in order to provide baseline measurements for the experimental protocol.
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D010919
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D26.660 E02.785
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Placebos" by people in this website by year, and whether "Placebos" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1982 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1983 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2013 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Placebos" by people in Profiles.
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Amato P, Young RL, Steinberg FM, Murray MJ, Lewis RD, Cramer MA, Barnes S, Ellis KJ, Shypailo RJ, Fraley JK, Konzelmann KL, Fischer JG, LaSalle C, Smith EO, Wong WW. Effect of soy isoflavone supplementation on menopausal quality of life. Menopause. 2013 Apr; 20(4):443-7.
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Johnson MW, Griffiths RR. Comparative abuse liability of GHB and ethanol in humans. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol. 2013 Apr; 21(2):112-123.
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Yoon JH, Newton TF, Haile CN, Bordnick PS, Fintzy RE, Culbertson C, Mahoney JJ, Hawkins RY, Labounty KR, Ross EL, Aziziyeh AI, De La Garza R. Effects of D-cycloserine on cue-induced craving and cigarette smoking among concurrent cocaine- and nicotine-dependent volunteers. Addict Behav. 2013 Feb; 38(2):1518-26.
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Kubiszyn T, Mire S, Dutt S, Papathopoulos K, Burridge AB. Significant differences in pediatric psychotropic side effects: Implications for school performance. Sch Psychol Q. 2012 Mar; 27(1):4-28.
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Garey KW, Ghantoji SS, Shah DN, Habib M, Arora V, Jiang ZD, DuPont HL. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study to assess the ability of rifaximin to prevent recurrent diarrhoea in patients with Clostridium difficile infection. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2011 Dec; 66(12):2850-5.
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Wong WW, Lewis RD, Steinberg FM, Murray MJ, Cramer MA, Amato P, Young RL, Barnes S, Ellis KJ, Shypailo RJ, Fraley JK, Konzelmann KL, Fischer JG, Smith EO. Soy isoflavone supplementation and bone mineral density in menopausal women: a 2-y multicenter clinical trial. Am J Clin Nutr. 2009 Nov; 90(5):1433-9.
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Maskarinec G, Verheus M, Steinberg FM, Amato P, Cramer MK, Lewis RD, Murray MJ, Young RL, Wong WW. Various doses of soy isoflavones do not modify mammographic density in postmenopausal women. J Nutr. 2009 May; 139(5):981-6.
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Kulp MT, Borsting E, Mitchell GL, Scheiman M, Cotter S, Cooper J, Rouse M, London R, Wensveen J. Feasibility of using placebo vision therapy in a multicenter clinical trial. Optom Vis Sci. 2008 Apr; 85(4):255-61.
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Johnson MW, Suess PE, Griffiths RR. Ramelteon: a novel hypnotic lacking abuse liability and sedative adverse effects. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2006 Oct; 63(10):1149-57.
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Wong GK, Poon WS. Is there an interaction between pravastatin and clinical events other than vasospasm in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage? Stroke. 2006 Feb; 37(2):335; author reply 335.
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