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Placebo is the opening word of the antiphon of vespers in the Office of the Dead, used as a name for the service as a whole.The full sentence, from the Vulgate, is Placebo Domino in regione vivorum 'I will please the Lord in the land of the living', from Psalm 116:9.
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Benedetti has been credited as being partly responsible for the increasing respectability of research into the placebo effect. [14] A review of his book Placebo Effects: Understanding the mechanisms in health and disease in the New England Journal of Medicine stated that he runs "the foremost laboratory for the study of placebo effects in the world."
Research published in 2008 showed that placebos enhanced memory performance. Participants were given a placebo "cognitive enhancing drug" called R273. When they participated in a misinformation effect experiment, people who took R273 were more resistant to the effects of misleading post-event information. [36]
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A placebo (/ p l ə ˈ s iː b oʊ / plə-SEE-boh) is a substance or treatment which is designed to have no therapeutic value. [1] Common placebos include inert tablets (like sugar pills), inert injections (like saline), sham surgery, [2] and other procedures. [3] Placebos are used in randomized clinical trials to test the efficacy of medical ...