Toward understanding the placebo effect: Investigating a possible retrocausal factor

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 733-739

  Radin, Dean ^a   Lobach, Eva ^b  

^a Institute of Noetic Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLACEBO EFFECT; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 35348825137     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2006.6243     Document Type: Article

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