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The Powerful Placebo Effect: Fact or Fiction?

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does not resolve to a known work10.1001/jama.271.20.1609
The 40 checked references that resolve
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THE POWERFUL PLACEBO
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COMPARISON OF EFFECTS OF ALPHA‐TOCOPHEROL AND A MATCHING PLACEBO ON CHEST PAIN IN PATIENTS WITH HEART DISEASE
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A method for the evaluation of the effects of drugs on cardiac pain in patients with angina of effort
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A CONTROLLED STUDY OF PAIN RELIEF BY INTRAVENOUS PROCAINE
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THE ASSESSMENT OF COUGH-SUPPRESSING DRUGS
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Effects of Placebo Administration and Occurrence of Toxic Reactions
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A study of the placebo response
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<i>Effect of Antitussive Agents on Experimental and Pathological Cough in Man</i>
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DRUG-INDUCED MOOD CHANGES IN MAN
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The power of nonspecific effects in healing: Implications for psychosocial and biological treatments
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Was ist ein Placebo? Die Bedeutung einer korrekten Definition für die klinische Forschung
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Is there logic in the placebo?
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Regression to the mean in treated versus untreated chronic pain
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Practice Variations, Treatment Fads, Rising Disability
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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE XANTHINE DRUGS IN THE TREATMENT OF ANGINA PECTORIS
resolves10.1001/jama.1956.02970340021007
EVALUATION OF CORTISONE IN THE TREATMENT OF CEREBRAL INFARCTION
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How much of the placebo ‘effect’ is really statistical regression?
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EFFICACY OF METHANTHELINE (BANTHINE) BROMIDE IN THERAPY OF THE UNSTABLE COLON
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The Effects of “Hypnosis” on Pain
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Sensory-decision theory analysis of the placebo effect on the criterion for pain and thermal sensitivity (d').
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Pain measurement and pain behavior
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Cognitive dissonance: Private ratiocination or public spectacle?
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Implications of placebo theory for clinical research and practice in pain management
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The role of conditioning and verbal expectancy in the placebo response
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Classic conditioning and placebo effects in crossover studies
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Pre-existing Conditions, Placebo Reactions, and "Side Effects"
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Adverse Nondrug Reactions
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Placebo Responses to Medical Device Therapy for Pain
resolves10.1136/bmj.311.7004.551
Concept of true and perceived placebo effects
resolves10.1016/0022-3999(88)90055-4
Reduction of post-operative swelling by a placebo effect
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ANTI-INFLAMMATORY EFFECTS OF ULTRASOUND THERAPY: EVIDENCE FOR A MAJOR PLACEBO EFFECT
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Drugs and Placebos: A Model Design
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no DOI — not checkedThe comparative value of drugs used in the continuous treatment of angina pectoris
no DOI — not checkedThe prevention and treatment of motion sickness
no DOI — not checkedPain relief with hypnotic doses of barbiturates and a hypothesis
no DOI — not checkedField use of methadone and levo-iso-methadone in a combat zone
no DOI — not checkedThe effectiveness of oral analgesics (morphine, codeine, acetylsalicylic acid) and the problem of placebo “reactors” and “non-reactors.”
no DOI — not checkedDas Placeboproblem
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no DOI — not checkedKienle GS. Der sogenannte Placeboeffekt; Illusion, Fakten, Realität. Stuttgart, New York: Schattauer Verlag GmbH; 1995.
no DOI — not checkedPlacebo effect and placebo concept
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no DOI — not checkedTreatment of disseminated sclerosis with active and inactive drugs
no DOI — not checkedRoberts AH. The powerful placebo revisited: The magnitude of nonspecific effects. Mind/Body Medicine 1995; March; 1–10.
no DOI — not checkedRandomized trials in individual patients
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no DOI — not checkedConditioned Immunopharmacological Effects in Animals
no DOI — not checkedPain and the placebo response
no DOI — not checkedA conditioned response model of the placebo effect
no DOI — not checkedPlacebo effect in cardiovascular clinical pharmacology
no DOI — not checkedLack of placebo effect on ambulatory blood pressure
no DOI — not checkedControlling blood pressure throughout the day
no DOI — not checkedPlacebo und Placebo-Effekte in Klinik und Forschung
no DOI — not checkedDie Placebowirkung als unspezifischer Wirkungsfaktor im Bereich der Krankheit und der Krankenbehandlung
no DOI — not checkedThe pharmacology of placebos
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no DOI — not checkedVeterans Administration. Minutes of the Fifth Streptomycin Conference; Knickerbocker Hotel, Chicago, Illinois; April 15–18, 1948.
no DOI — not checkedCognitive processes in alcohol use
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no DOI — not checkedZur Problematik der Doppelblindstudien
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