Spirituality: An overlooked predictor of placebo effects?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1572, 2011, Pages 1838-1848

  Kohls, Nikola ^a,b,c   Sauer, Sebastian ^a,b   Offenbächer, Martin ^a   Giordano, James ^d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Peter Schilffarth Institute for Sociotechnology   (Germany)

^c SAMUELI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES   (United States)

^e GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Meaningfulness; Neuronal top down effects; Placebo; Salutogenetic effects; Spiritual practice; Spirituality

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DRUG; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ETHICS; PSYCHOLOGY;

ARTICLE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PLACEBO EFFECT; RELIGION;

HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; PLACEBO EFFECT; RELIGION; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 79956355117     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0389     Document Type: Article

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