Placebo effect and athletes

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 214-217

  Trojian, Thomas H ^a   Beedie, Christopher J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; PLACEBO EFFECT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REINFORCEMENT; BRAIN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPORT;

ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BRAIN; HUMANS; PLACEBO EFFECT; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPORTS;

EID: 50349101080     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e31817ed050     Document Type: Article

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