Placebos and Nocebos in Headaches

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mitsikostas, Dimos D. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Benedetti, Fabrizio (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Headache,
• Subjects: Internal medicine.; Neurology .; Pain medicine.; Internal Medicine.; Neurology.; Pain Medicine.

This book discusses the role of placebos and nocebos in the treatment of headache disorders. These disorders are usually treatable, but safety and tolerability issues mean that available preventive treatments have often limited success, even in the right hands - one in five patients treated with a m...