Placebo Effect in the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety

The aim of this review is to evaluate the placebo effect in the treatment of anxiety and depression. Antidepressants are supposed to work by fixing a chemical imbalance, specifically, a lack of serotonin or norepinephrine in the brain. However, analyses of the published and the unpublished clinical...

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Main Author: Irving Kirsch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00407/full