Placebo and Pain

Preface
1. Historical Aspects of Placebo Analgesia
2. Neurochemistry of Placebo Analgesia: Opioids, Cannabinoids and Cholecystokinin
3. Placebo Analgesia in Rodents
4. Molecular Mechanisms of Placebo Responses in Humans
5. How Does EEG Contribute to Our Understanding of the Placebo Response?
6. Spinal Mechanisms of Placebo Analgesia and Nocebo Hyperalgesia: Descending Inhibitory and Facilitatory Influences
7. Spinal and Supraspinal Mechanisms of Placebo Analgesia
8. Positive and Negative Emotions and Placebo Analgesia
9. Placing Placebo in Normal Brain Function with Neuroimaging
10. Brain Predictors of Individual Differences in Placebo Responding
11. Placebo Responses, Antagonistic Responses, and Homeostasis
12. Placebo Analgesia, Nocebo Hyperalgesia, and Acupuncture
13. The Relevance of Placebo and Nocebo Mechanisms for Analgesic Treatments
14. How Placebo Responses Are Formed: From Bench to Bedside
15. Methodologic Aspects of Placebo Research
16. Balanced Placebo Design, Active Placebos, and Other Design Features for Identifying, Minimilizing and Characterizing the Placebo Response
17. Psychological Processes that can Bias Responses to Placebo Treatment for Pain
18. Against "Placebo." The Case for Changing our Language, adn for the Meaning Response
19. Placebo Effects in Complementary and Alternative Medicine: The Self-Healing Response
20. Conceptualizations and Magnitudes of Placebo Analgesia Effects Across Meta-Analyses and Experimental Studies
21. The Contribution of Desire, Expectation, and Reduced Negative Emotions to Placebo Anti-Hyperalgesia in Irritable Bowel Syndrome
22. The Wound that Heals: Placebo, Pain and Surgery
23. What Are the Best Placebo Interventions for the Treatment of Pain?
24. How Communication between Clinicians and Patients may Impact Pain Perception
25. Nocebos in Daily Clinical Practice
26. The Potential of the Analgesic Placebo Effect in Clinical Practice - Recommendations for Pain Management
27. Placebo and

Professor of Biological Psychology and Depatment Chair of Psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Dr. Flaten's reserach focuses on biological psychology, psychology of learning, behavioral medicine, and pain. He serves as a board member for European Psychologist and European Journal of Behavior Analysis and served as Chair for the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Imaging in Neuroscience 2007-2009. Dr. Flaten chaired the 2011 symposium on placebo and pain at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting.

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"Colloca.and coeditors Flaten and Meissner present 27 chapters of research examining the placebo effect on pain and the key mechanistic advances and impact of these findings for clinical researchers and health practitioners. Neuroscience, psychology, pain, and other specialists from Europe, Australia, the US, and China describe the mechanisms underlying placebo-induced mediation and modulation of pain, including historical aspects, neurochemistry, animal models,." --Reference & Research Book News, December 2013