A new perspective on "the placebo effect": Untangling the entanglement

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 614-619

  Manek, Nisha J ^a   Tiller, William A ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; ATOM; BEHAVIOR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; MAGNETISM; MORALITY; NONHUMAN; PLACEBO EFFECT; THERMODYNAMICS;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLACEBO EFFECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 80052617521     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.06.047     Document Type: Article

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