Lack of expectancy-induced placebo effects on pupil size and accommodation;Keine Effekte von placeboinduzierten Erwartungen auf die Pupillengröße und die Augenakkommodation

Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Psychologie

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 154-160

  Gavrylyuk, Ganna ^a   Ehrt, Oliver ^b   Meissner, Karin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Autonomic Nervous System; Eye; Placebo Effect; Pupil Size; Verbal Suggestion

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956287884     PISSN: 09405569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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