Placebo response in depression: is it rising?

The Lancet Psychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1005-1006

  Enck, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

DEPRESSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NOTE; PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOME; PLACEBO EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); MAJOR DEPRESSION;

DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; HUMANS;

EID: 84992187800     PISSN: 22150366     EISSN: 22150374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(16)30308-X     Document Type: Note

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