Creating placebo responders and nonresponders in the laboratory: boons and banes

Pain Manag. 2014 May;4(3):165-7. doi: 10.2217/pmt.14.11.

Authors

Fabrizio Benedetti¹, Elisa Frisaldi

Affiliation

¹ Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin Medical School & National Institute of Neuroscience, Corso Raffaello 30, 10125 Turin, Italy.

PMID: 24953068
DOI: 10.2217/pmt.14.11

No abstract available

Keywords: clinical trials; conditioning; learning; medical practice; methodological biases; natural history; placebo; regression to the mean.

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Humans
Pain Management / methods*
Placebo Effect*