Placebo Effects in Neurologic Disease, Volume 153

Part 1: Background and methods in placebo
1. Better than Nothing: A Historical Account of Placebos and Placebo Effects from Modern to Contemporary Medicine
Marco Annoni
2. Determinants of PE
Sharlet A. Anderson
3. Strategies for minimizing PE in Research
Joaquim J. Ferreira
4. Maximizing placebo response in the clinic
Louise-Laure Mariani
5. Statistical methods for handling PE
Rema Raman
6. Nocebo and Lessebo effects
Tiago Mestre
7. Ethics of deception
A. Jon Stoessl

Part 2: Placebo response in specific disease populations
8. Pain
Luana Colloca
9. Parkinson's Disease
Jau-shin Lou
10. Cognitive impairment
Kaori Ito
11. Epilepsy
Daniel M. Goldenholz

Placebo Effects in Neurologic Disease, Volume 153, the latest release in the International Review of Neurobiology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Background and Methods in Placebo, Better than Nothing: A Historical Account of Placebos and Placebo Effects from Modern to Contemporary Medicine, Determinants of PE, Strategies for Minimizing PE in Research, Maximizing placebo response in the clinic, Statistical methods for handling PE, Nocebo and Lessebo effects, Ethics of deception, Pain, Parkinson's Disease, Cognitive impairment, Epilepsy, and much more.

• Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors
• Presents the latest release in the International Review of Neurobiology series
• Updated release includes the latest information on the placebo effect

Undergraduates, graduates, academics and researchers in the field of  Neurologic Disease