Understanding and using the placebo effect

Psychiatric Times

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 15-17

  Brown, Walter A ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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