The digital placebo effect: Mobile mental health meets clinical psychiatry

The Lancet Psychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 100-102

  Torous, John ^a,b   Firth, Joseph ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ANXIETY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH; MINDFULNESS; MOBILE APPLICATION; NOTE; PLACEBO EFFECT; PSYCHIATRY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REMOTE SENSING; SELF MONITORING; SMARTPHONE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE;

HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PLACEBO EFFECT;

EID: 84957398621     PISSN: 22150366     EISSN: 22150374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(15)00565-9     Document Type: Note

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