http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsakiIIrOg <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsakiIIrOg> "Pursuing the Placebo Effect" BTW there is a new edition of the famous "The Web that Has No Weaver "book-a good read What does it add since the first edition, some of the critical basic questions concerning East Asian medicine have shifted? Readers now want to immediately know how Chinese medicine deals with the intersection of mind and body, meaning and mechanism, intention and action. This new edition has added from chapter two onwards, a lengthy investigations of the five spirits (hun, po, zhi, yi and shen) the spirits' traditional virtues and psychological propensities are included in all presentations of theory, organs, and pathology -the relationship of the bodily states to wisdom, fear and guilt, human-kindness, anger and self-esteem, creativity, sincerity, worry and ruminations, beauty and grief, propriety and appropriate behavior,shyness and saving-face. And also has a lengthy discussion of the patient-physician relationship, its relationship to intention, intuition, clinical outcomes and healing , long considered a major component of health care in ancient texts. Most importantly its included a lengthy summary of recent and ongoing scientific research into Chinese medicine, summarizes over 500 randomized controlled trials of acupuncture, looks at some of acupuncture research's methodological challenges and some of the newest basic research concerning endorphins and MRI and acupuncture point specificity (over 100 pages reviewing biomedical research into acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine.)The footnotes have been updated to include the latest information about East Asian medicine in academic disciplines as bio-medicine, pharmacology, anthropology, history, sociology and sinology
Also a good read about deception as a common feature of research design in neuroscience, which is adopted to promote scientific validity. Nevertheless, it is ethically controversial because it compromises informed consent. http://www.jneurosci.org/content/28/19/4841.full.pdf <http://www.jneurosci.org/content/28/19/4841.full.pdf> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > Good article in Harvard Magazine on the very latest in > placebo-related research, profiling a researcher at > Harvard Medical School who is studying (among other > aspects) the neural mechanisms of the placebo effect in > both patients *and* physicians (research on the latter, > which is still in process, has never been done before): > > http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/01/the-placebo-phenomenon >
