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ArticleInternational review of neurobiology2018

Preface: The Fascinating Mechanisms and Implications of the Placebo Effect.

Luana Colloca

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Article in International review of neurobiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Placebo and nocebo effect in pain.Handbook of clinical neurology · 2025
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  11. Placebo Effects in Psychotherapy: A Framework.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Luana CollocaDepartment of Pain Translational Symptom Science, School of Nursing, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States; Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States; Center to Advance Chronic Pain Research, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States.

Funding

Chronic orofacial pain: genetics, cognitive-emotional factors, and endogenous modulatory systemsR01DE025946 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI COLLOCA, LUANA · 2016 to 2019
$2.1M
NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE025946
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Biomedical ResearchPlacebo EffectPlacebosAnimalsHumansPlacebos

Identifiers

PMID29681338
PMCPMC5953755

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