Expectancy and Treatment Interactions: A Dissociation between Acupuncture Analgesia and Expectancy Evoked Placebo Analgesia

Recent advances in placebo research have demonstrated the mind's power to alter physiology. In this study, we combined an expectancy manipulation model with both verum and sham acupuncture treatments to address: 1) how and to what extent treatment and expectancy effects — including both subject...

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Main Authors: Kong, Jian, Kaptchuk, Ted J., Polich, Ginger, Kirsch, Irving, Vangel, Mark G., Zyloney, Carolyn, Rosen, Bruce R., Gollub, Randy Lyanne
Other Authors: Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73102
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7615-8440