New insights into placebo analgesia
- 1 October 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Current Opinion In Anesthesiology
- Vol. 16 (5) , 515-519
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00001503-200310000-00012
Abstract
The placebo effect is a widespread phenomenon in medicine, both in clinical trials and in routine medical practice. Most of our knowledge about the underlying psychological and physiological mechanisms comes from the study of placebo analgesia.Keywords
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