Organ-specificity of placebo effects on blood pressure

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 164, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 62-66

  Meissner, Karin ^a,b   Ziep, Dagmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Autonomic nervous system; Blood pressure; Placebo effect; Verbal suggestion

Indexed keywords

HOMEOPATHIC AGENT; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ELECTROGASTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLACEBO EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATERIA MEDICA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLACEBO EFFECT; PLACEBOS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052261576     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: 18727484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2011.06.006     Document Type: Article

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