Utilizing placebo mechanisms for dose reduction in pharmacotherapy

Trends in Pharmacological Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 165-172

  Doering, Bettina K ^a   Rief, Winfried ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; APOMORPHINE; BUPRENORPHINE; CHLORPROMAZINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DESLORATADINE; PLACEBO;

ALLERGIC RHINITIS; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; COST MINIMIZATION ANALYSIS; DECEPTION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG THERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PLACEBO EFFECT; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG THERAPY; HUMANS; PLACEBO EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84857913494     PISSN: 01656147     EISSN: 18733735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tips.2011.12.001     Document Type: Review

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