Ted Kaptchuk investigates placebo effects and has published over 100 articles — including clinical trials, neuroimaging studies, historical investigations, methodological reviews and ethical ...

A placebo is often thought of in terms of a sugar pill but it essentially refers to any treatment or intervention that in itself has no biological effect - e.g. a saline injection or even ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Beecher, Henry K. 1955. "The Powerful Placebo." Journal of the American Medical Association 159: 1602–06. Benedetti, Fabrizio, Helen S.