DOES PLACEBO GIVE MORE PROTECTION AGAINST RELAPSE IN SCHIZOPHRENIA THAN NO DRUG

These is a voluminous literature documenting responses to placebo trea tment and the variables that influence that response. The argument is that the placebo response is a conditional response and this explanato ry model is here applied to explain why so few patients with schizophr enia relapse during the placebo regime (after withdrawal of the active drug).