Cognition and the Placebo Effect--Dissociating Subjective Perception and Actual Performance.

The influence of positive or negative expectations on clinical outcomes such as pain relief or motor performance in patients and healthy participants has been extensively investigated for years. Such research promises potential benefit for patient treatment by deliberately using expectations as mean...

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Main Authors: Katharina A Schwarz, Christian Büchel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4493024?pdf=render