The placebo response in medicine: minimize, maximize or personalize?

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Published in Nat Rev Drug Discov on March 01, 2013

Authors

Paul Enck1, Ulrike Bingel, Manfred Schedlowski, Winfried Rief

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Internal Medicine VI, University Hospital Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. paul.enck@uni-tuebingen.de

Associated clinical trials:

Effects of Expectation, Medication and Placebo on Objective and Self-rated Performance | NCT02477280

Effects of Expectation, Medication and Placebo on Objective and Self-rated Performance During the QbTest | NCT02473185

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