Fabrizio Benedetti

List of John Benjamins publications in which Fabrizio Benedetti is involved.

Article

Benedetti, Fabrizio 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 | Article

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