The Role Of Placebo Treatment

The consequence is defined as a phenomenon during which some people experience a benefit after the administration of an inactive "look-alike" substance or treatment. This substance, or placebo, has no known medical effect. Sometimes the placebo is within the sort of a pill (sugar pill), but it also can be an injection (saline solution). In most cases, the person doesn't know that the treatment they're receiving is really a placebo. Instead, they believe that they're the recipient of the important treatment. The placebo is meant to look exactly just like the real treatment, whether it's a pill, injection, or consumable liquid, yet the substance has no actual effect on the condition it purports to treat. It's important to notice that a "placebo" and therefore the "placebo effect" are various things. The term placebo refers to the inactive substance itself, while the term consequence refers to any effects of taking a drug that can't be attributed to the treatment itself. In medical research, some people during a study could also be given a placebo, while others get the new treatment being tested. The aim of doing this is often to work out the effectiveness of the new treatment. If participants taking the particular drug demonstrate a big improvement over those taking the placebo, the study can help support the claim for the drug's effectiveness. While a placebo does not affect illness, it can have a really real effect on how some people feel. Some people are genetically predisposed to reply more to placebos. One study found that folks with a gene variant that codes for higher levels of the brain chemical dopamine are more susceptible to the consequence than those with the low-dopamine version.

By: Raghav Saxena

Birla School, Pilani