Ted Kaptchuk
Ted Kaptchuk
Ted Kaptchuk is an American author, researcher, and Professor of Medicine and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he focuses on the placebo effect...
effect human
To some extent, placebos are about the effect of the human imagination.
device effect greater placebo sham upside whether
It's upside down research. We investigated whether a sham acupuncture device has a greater placebo effect than an inert pill.
beyond compared conditions critical deliver device effect enhanced extreme irrelevant medical placebo ritual suggest treatment
These findings suggest the medical ritual of a device can deliver an enhanced placebo effect beyond that of a placebo pill. There are many conditions in which ritual is irrelevant when compared with drugs, such as in treatment of a bacterial infection, but the other extreme may also be true: In some cases, the ritual may be the critical component.
act applying needles
It may be that it is the act of applying the needles that is important.