How to study placebo responses in motion sickness with a rotation chair paradigm in healthy participants

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 94, 2014, Pages

  Weimer, Katja ^a   Horing, Björn ^b   Muth, Eric R ^b   Enck, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced placebo design; Electrogastrography; Expectancy; Gastric myoelectric activity; Issue 94; Motion sickness; Nausea; Neuroscience; Placebo effect; Placebo response; Rotation tolerance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84917706072     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/52471     Document Type: Article

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