Are All Placebo Effects Equal? Placebo Pills, Sham Acupuncture, Cue Conditioning and Their Association

Placebo treatments and healing rituals have been used to treat pain throughout history. The present within-subject crossover study examines the variability in individual responses to placebo treatment with verbal suggestion and visual cue conditioning by investigating whether responses to different...

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Main Authors: Kong, Jian (Author), Spaeth, Rosa (Author), Cook, Amanda (Author), Kirsch, Irving (Author), Claggett, Brian (Author), Smoller, Jordan W. (Author), Kaptchuk, Ted J. (Author), Vangel, Mark G. (Contributor), Gollub, Randy Lyanne (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (Contributor), Martinos Imaging Center (McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT) (Contributor), Harvard University- (Contributor), McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science, 2013-09-30T12:54:50Z.
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