Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool. Votes: 5
Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo Votes: 4
If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive. Votes: 4
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. Votes: 3
There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo. Votes: 3
A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases. Votes: 3
I'm addicted to placebos. Votes: 2
There is no such thing as a placebo erection. Votes: 2
I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter. Votes: 2
Can placebos cause side effects? If so, are the side effects real? Votes: 2
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted. Votes: 2
I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better. Votes: 2
A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection. Votes: 2
I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo. Votes: 2
... surgery is a powerful placebo, perhaps the ultimate placebo. The effectiveness of a placebo is directly proportional to the impression it makes on the patient's subconscious mind. Votes: 2
The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment. Votes: 2
In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the ego with its own potency) which is infectious: the patient enjoys a placebo-effect which redounds to the ego of the "artist." Votes: 2
You have to believe in a placebo or it wont work, but if it works, its obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy. Votes: 2
I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers call it 'placebo effect'; I prefer to call it magic, for it occurs when something - a pill or a word - is imbued with power and meaning, and so it becomes effective. That is alchemy. Votes: 2
If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. That's why the placebo effect is so powerful for every type of healing. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the "nocebo" effect. Votes: 2
Interviewer: [What do you get up to] In real time? Brian Molko: I go on Placebo sites and have a terrible time trying to convince fans it's actually me. No one ever believes it. I've spent about four hours, giving away intimate details about myself that I'd never tell a journalist, in an effort to prove that it's me. Votes: 2
I became a human placebo. Votes: 1
The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect. Votes: 1
The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response. Votes: 1
I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and unscientific claims. Votes: 1
I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma. Votes: 1
Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy. Votes: 1
You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy. Votes: 1
I'll take transformational change any way it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection. To call what happens 'the placebo effect' is just to give a name to something we don't understand. Votes: 1
God is a placebo for your own mortality. Votes: 0
We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases. Votes: 0
Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers Votes: 0
I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo. Votes: 0
But this anti-war protest, is far from a success; it is just a placebo for the people. These peacemakers feel so satisfied, gratified; gay-gallant-and-gleeful. But they do not achieve anything acceptable, perceptible; or peaceful. Votes: 0
El efecto placebo es un fenómeno muy potente. Cuando los pacientes piensan y creen verdaderamente que esa pastilla les va a curar, reciben lo que creen y se curan.
I think if your direction in life is clear and if you develop the wish to accomplish/have a fulfilled life and to contribute something to others, I think that definitely gives you such a strength to want to be alive, that that would be the best placebo...