Mind-Body medicine

Question 1

an improvement in a patient’s illness attributable to the symbolic significance or meaning of an intervention. It results from a non-specific psychobiologic process occurring in the patient’s brain rather than a specific, presumed physiologic mechanism of the intervention.

Answer 1

The Placebo effect

Question 2

A worsening of a patient’s illness attributable to the symbolic significance or meaning of an intervention. It results from a non-specific psychobiologic process occurring in the patient’s brain rather than a specific, presumed physiologic mechanism of the intervention

Answer 2

Nocebo effect

Question 3

Pure placebo

Answer 3

Interventions lacking any known specific physiologic activity

like a sugar pill

Question 4

impure placebo

Answer 4

Interventions with a non-zero but extremely low probability of producing a specific physiologic effect, or that have known clinical value for some conditions but lack specific physiologic effects for the presumptive diagnosis

Question 5

Open label placebo

Answer 5

Pure or impure placebos given to patients with full disclosure