Luana Colloca

Summary

Affiliation: National Institutes of Health
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Role of expectations in health
    Luana Colloca
    National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine NCCAM, National Institutes of Health, USA
    Curr Opin Psychiatry 24:149-55. 2011
  2. ncbi How placebo responses are formed: a learning perspective
    Luana Colloca
    National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine NCCAM, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366:1859-69. 2011
  3. ncbi Harnessing the placebo effect: the need for translational research
    Luana Colloca
    National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine NCCAM, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366:1922-30. 2011
  4. ncbi The nocebo effect and its relevance for clinical practice
    Luana Colloca
    Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bldg 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
    Psychosom Med 73:598-603. 2011
  5. ncbi The legitimacy of placebo treatments in clinical practice: evidence and ethics
    Franklin G Miller
    Department of Bioethics Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
    Am J Bioeth 9:39-47. 2009
  6. ncbi The placebo phenomenon and medical ethics: rethinking the relationship between informed consent and risk-benefit assessment
    Franklin G Miller
    Department of Bioethics Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
    Theor Med Bioeth 32:229-43. 2011
  7. ncbi The placebo effect: illness and interpersonal healing
    Franklin G Miller
    Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
    Perspect Biol Med 52:518-39. 2009
  8. ncbi Semiotics and the placebo effect
    Franklin G Miller
    Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
    Perspect Biol Med 53:509-16. 2010

Detail Information

Publications8

  1. ncbi Role of expectations in health
    Luana Colloca
    National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine NCCAM, National Institutes of Health, USA
    Curr Opin Psychiatry 24:149-55. 2011
    ..We selected recent laboratory and clinical studies in the field of the placebo effect, with a particular focus on psychiatric disorders...
  2. ncbi How placebo responses are formed: a learning perspective
    Luana Colloca
    National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine NCCAM, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366:1859-69. 2011
    ..Conceptualizing the placebo effect in terms of learning offers the opportunity for facilitating scientific investigation with a significant impact on medical care...
  3. ncbi Harnessing the placebo effect: the need for translational research
    Luana Colloca
    National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine NCCAM, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366:1922-30. 2011
    ..We suggest some strategies for how, when and why interventions to promote beneficial placebo responses might be administered in the clinical setting...
  4. ncbi The nocebo effect and its relevance for clinical practice
    Luana Colloca
    Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bldg 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
    Psychosom Med 73:598-603. 2011
    ..Evidence further indicates that the informed consent process in clinical trials may induce nocebo effects. This article concludes with ethical directions for future patient-oriented research and routine practice...
  5. ncbi The legitimacy of placebo treatments in clinical practice: evidence and ethics
    Franklin G Miller
    Department of Bioethics Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
    Am J Bioeth 9:39-47. 2009
    ..The conclusion is reached that based on currently available evidence, it is premature to judge whether placebo treatments are ethically justifiable, with the possible exception of acupuncture for pain relief...
  6. ncbi The placebo phenomenon and medical ethics: rethinking the relationship between informed consent and risk-benefit assessment
    Franklin G Miller
    Department of Bioethics Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
    Theor Med Bioeth 32:229-43. 2011
    ..In this paper we discuss the implications of placebo and nocebo research for risk-benefit assessment and informed consent...
  7. ncbi The placebo effect: illness and interpersonal healing
    Franklin G Miller
    Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
    Perspect Biol Med 52:518-39. 2009
    ..Finally, we argue that research on the placebo effect has the potential to revitalize the art of medicine...
  8. ncbi Semiotics and the placebo effect
    Franklin G Miller
    Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1156, USA
    Perspect Biol Med 53:509-16. 2010
    ..The semiotic approach dovetails with the various psychological mechanisms invoked to account for placebo effects, such as conditioning and expectation, and bridges the biological and cultural dimensions of this fascinating phenomenon...