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PbOLead Oxide
PbOParliamentary Budget Officer (Canada)
PbOPlacebo
PbOPubliekrechtelijke Bedrijfsorganisatie
PbOPiperonyl Butoxide
PbOProjected Benefit Obligation (pension plan accounting)
PbOPresident Barack Obama
PbOPractical Boat Owner
PbOPlayback Orchestre
PbOProfiler Binary Output
PbOProfiler Batch Output
PbOPlate Boundary Observatory
PbOProperty Book Officer
PbOProcess Before Output
PbOPhilharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco, CA)
PbOPerformance Based Organization
PbOPrevention of Bribery Ordinance (Hong Kong)
PbOPin Bone Out (seafood purchasing specification)
PbOPolybenzoxazole
PbOPortland Baroque Orchestra (Oregon)
PbOPixel Buffer Object
PbOPublic Benefit Organization
PbOPersonal Banking Officer
PbOPacked By Owner (shipping label)
PbOPrevent Blindness Ohio
PbOPower Back Off
PbOPittsboro, NC
PbOPlan and Budget Organization (Iran)
PbOParaburdoo, Western Australia, Australia - Paraburdoo (Airport Code)
PbOPriority Banking Officer
PbOPre-Birth Order (legal adoption order)
PbOPost Burn Out
PbOPlan, Build and Operate
PbOPrivate Banking Online
PbOPocket Box Office (mobile games by Airborne Entertainment, Inc.)
PbOProgram & Budget Office
PbOPension Buyout Obligation
PbOPresiding Bishop's Office (LDS church)
PbOPolarized Born-Oppenheimer
PbOPoly-Paraphenylene-2 6-Benzobisoxazole (Zylon)
PbOPenicillin in Beeswax
PbOProfit Before Overhead
PbOPerformance Based Objective
PbOPolymorphic Buffer Overflow (security attack)
PbOProvided by Owner (construction industry)
PbOPrescribed Brand Only
PbOProhibited Behaviour Order (judicial sentencing; Australia)
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References in periodicals archive
The problem of course can lie in the misuse or abuse of placebos. The American Medical Association (AMA) Code of Ethics states that physicians may use placebos for diagnosis and treatment only with the patient's cooperation and consent; placebos should not be given to "mollify a difficult patient." The placebo enterprise is booming and online.
If a new drug performs no better than a placebo, that drug is rejected as having no curative effect.
When inducing placebo hypoalgesia or nocebo hyperalgesia by verbal suggestions alone, results are inconsistent, sometimes resulting only in weak [24] or even no effects [25, 29, 30] and at other times leading to robust pain reduction [10, 31] or increase [10, 32].
There may be a few circumstances in psychiatric practice when it makes sense to intentionally prescribe a placebo as treatment, and we discuss those below.
It was not until late 1955 that for the first time someone elucidated that placebo could have healing potential with Henry K.
The problem is that the placebo worked just as well.
One hypothesis is that the placebo causes your brain to have a response that trickles down to other parts of the body.
Both placebos improved motor function compared with their respective baseline; however, a significantly greater improvement was observed in the "expensive" placebo when compared to the "cheap" placebo.
In the placebo effect, patients given a nonmedically active substance, such as a sugar pill, report improvement in their condition because they think they have been given something that will help.
This collection contains five review articles and four original articles on the placebo effect and its basic mechanisms and clinical applications.
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