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...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Headache Classification and Diagnosis
• 2 The burden of headache
• 3 Patient centred approach in headaches
• 4 Unmet needs in headache management
• 5 Mechanisms of pain and headache
• 6 The reward system
• 7 Mechanisms of placebo
• 8 Mechanisms of nocebo
• 9 Placebo in headache treatment
• 10 Nocebo in headache treatment. .