Neurobiological Mechanisms of the Placebo Effect

著者: Fabrizio Benedetti, Helen S. Mayberg, Tor D. Wager, Christian S. Stohler, Jon-Kar Zubieta - Journal of Neuroscience 2005 被引用: 773

Any medical treatment is surrounded by a psychosocial context that affects the therapeutic outcome. If we want to study this psychosocial context, we need to eliminate the specific action of a therapy and to simulate a context that is similar in all respects to that of a real treatment. To do this,