Fabrizio Benedetti
List of John Benjamins publications for which Fabrizio Benedetti plays a role.
Article
2010. Conscious and unconscious placebo responses: How the ritual of the therapeutic act changes the patient’s brain. New Horizons in the Neuroscience of Consciousness, Perry, Elaine K., Daniel Collerton, Fiona E.N. LeBeau and Heather Ashton (eds.), pp. 259–268
The study of the placebo response is basically the study of the psychosocial context around the therapy, which constitutes the ritual of the therapeutic act, and of its effects on the patient’s brain. Many mechanisms are involved, both conscious, like expectation of a future outcome, and… read more | Article