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Placebo Effect

Placebo Effect is a psychobiological response consisting of measurable beneficial changes in a patient’s symptoms or clinical outcomes that occur following the administration of an inert or pharmacologically inactive treatment, arising from expectations, conditioning, and contextual factors rather than from any specific pharmacodynamic action of the treatment itself.

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Placebo-Induced Changes in fMRI in the Anticipation and Experience of Pain

Tor D. Wager, James K. Rilling, Edward E. Smith et al. · Science · 2004 · 2K citations

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THE POWERFUL PLACEBO

Henry K. Beecher · Journal of the American Medical Association · 1955 · 1.8K citations

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Components of placebo effect: randomised controlled trial in patients with irritable bowel syndrome

Ted J. Kaptchuk, John M. Kelley, Lisa Conboy et al. · BMJ · 2008 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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THE MECHANISM OF PLACEBO ANALGESIA

JonD. Levine, NewtonC. Gordon, H. L. Fields · The Lancet · 1978 · 1.1K citations

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Are the clinical effects of homoeopathy placebo effects? A meta-analysis of placebo-controlled trials

Klaus Linde, N. Clausius, Gilbert Ramı́rez et al. · The Lancet · 1997 · 994 citations

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    Irving Kirsch

    University of Connecticut, United States

    69 publications · 10.8K citations

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    Ted J. Kaptchuk

    Harvard University, United States

    58 publications · 10K citations

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    Fabrizio Benedetti

    University of Turin, Italy

    46 publications · 6.9K citations

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    Luana Colloca

    University of Maryland, Baltimore, United States

    46 publications · 4.8K citations

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    Franklin G. Miller

    National Institutes of Health, United States

    19 publications · 3.2K citations

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  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

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    Boston, United States

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  3. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    35 h-index

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    Boston, United States

    34 h-index

    145 publications

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  5. University of Turin

    Turin, Italy

    34 h-index

    117 publications

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  6. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

    29 h-index

    87 publications

    6.7K citations

  7. National Institutes of Health

    Bethesda, United States

    28 h-index

    68 publications

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  8. University of Maryland, Baltimore

    Baltimore, United States

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  2. PubMed

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