https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2rsV6sPm8Q
Ted Kaptchuk talks about the placebo effect and the therapeutic encounter, including what consumers should know about the placebo effect in their health care

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What is a placebo? What should I know about the placebo effect when it comes to my health care decisions? Are some people more likely to respond to placebo t

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2012/12/the-placebo-phenomenon
The Placebo Phenomenon. An ingenious researcher finds the real ingredients of "fake" medicine. Two weeks into Ted Kaptchuk 's first randomized clinical drug trial, nearly a third of his 270 subjects complained of awful side effects. All the patients had joined the study hoping to alleviate severe arm pain: carpal tunnel, tendinitis

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8277290/
A Conversation with …. Ted J. Kaptchuk, Expert in Placebo Effects. Few topics stir more emotional responses among surgeons than do placebo-controlled surgical trials. Dramatic studies of this design on arthroscopic knee surgery [ 31, 33 ], shoulder surgery [ 34 ], and spine surgery [ 3] have forced surgeons to stare down the barrel at an idea

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Ted Kaptchuk talks about the importance of using placebos in scientific research. Ted Kaptchuk is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Directo

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33979308/
Ted J. Kaptchuk, Expert in Placebo Effects. A Conversation with … Ted J. Kaptchuk, Expert in Placebo Effects. A Conversation with … Ted J. Kaptchuk, Expert in Placebo Effects Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2021 Aug 1;479(8):1645-1650. doi: 10.1097/CORR.0000000000001824. ... Placebo Effect*

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mental-health/the-power-of-the-placebo-effect
"The placebo effect is a way for your brain to tell the body what it needs to feel better," says Kaptchuk. But placebos are not all about releasing brainpower. You also need the ritual of treatment. "When you look at these studies that compare drugs with placebos, there is the entire environmental and ritual factor at work," says Kaptchuk.

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/placebo-phenomenon
Ted Kaptchuk, HMS associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is profiled on his research of the placebo effect. Read full article. ... Exploring Our Sense of Touch from Every Angle. June 11, 2024. Harvard Medical School researchers are studying one of the most mysterious senses.

https://www.npr.org/2012/01/06/144794035/one-scholars-take-on-the-power-of-the-placebo
KAPTCHUK: Well, a placebo is a sugar pill or inert substance that's used to hide the genuine treatment in a clinical trial. A placebo effect is the effect of a sugar pill. The problem with that

http://programinplacebostudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Pharmafocus_April_2019.pdf
What is a placebo? Dr Ted Kaptchuk, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, explained: "A placebo is an inert substance, usually something like microcrystalline cellulose - sometimes sugar - that has no effect on human beings. It's inert. The placebo effect is not the effect of that pill. The placebo

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Placebo Effects in Medicine. Placebo Effects in Medicine N Engl J Med. 2015 Jul 2;373(1):8-9. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1504023. Authors Ted J Kaptchuk 1 , Franklin G Miller. Affiliation 1 From the Program in Placebo Studies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and ... Placebo Effect*

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ted-j--kaptchuk-and-john-m--kelleythe-power-and-limitations-of-the-placebo-effect
The effects of placebos are not always beneficial. The placebo effect has a dark twin called the nocebo effect. Although placebos are biologically inert, as many as 26% of placebo-treated patients drop out of clinical trials after suffering intolerable side effects, which are usually the same as the possible side effects of the drug being tested.

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Ted Kaptchuk, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and director of the Program in Placebo Studies & the Therapeutic Encounter, answe

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The active ingredients of placebo effects Q&A with Ted on the TEDMED Blog Placebo effects in medicine Kaptchuk TJ, Miller FG. New England Journal of Medicine. 2015;371:8-9. Altered placebo and drug labeling changes the outcome of episodic migraine attacks Kam-Hansen et al. Science Trans Med. 2014; 6: 218ra5.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/6/1/15711814/open-label-placebo-kaptchuk
Brian Resnick was Vox's science and health editor and is the co-creator of Unexplainable, Vox's podcast about unanswered questions in science. Harvard medicine professor Ted Kaptchuk is at the

https://www.npr.org/2013/02/03/171006082/research-shows-placebos-may-have-place-in-everyday-treatments
The placebo effect, in which patients perceive an effect from a fake drug, is even stronger than once believed. Host Laura Sullivan talks to Ted Kaptchuk, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical

http://programinplacebostudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/PerspectivesNEJM-KaptchukMiller.pdf
Placebo Effects in Medicine Ted J. Kaptchuk and Franklin G. Miller, Ph.D. P lacebo effects are often con-sidered the effects of an "inert substance," but that characteriza-tion is misleading. In a broad sense, placebo effects are improve-ments in patients' symptoms that are attributable to their participa-tion in the therapeutic encounter,

https://journals.lww.com/clinorthop/Fulltext/2021/08000/A_Conversation_with___Ted_J__Kaptchuk,_Expert_in.1.aspx
Dr. Leopold:Placebo effects may have less to do with the intervention (sugar pill, simulated surgery) and more to do with the mechanism behind the effect; my sense is that the effect is driven in some measure by trust and by the patient's confidence in a therapeutic relationship.

https://www.tedmed.com/talks/show?id=299407
About This Talk. Ted Kaptchuk, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, directs the Program in Placebo Studies, Healing and Therapeutic Encounter. In his talk, he upends many assumptions about what really works in the therapeutic encounter, and what doesn't, as revealed in placebo research.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/placebo-improves-asthma-symptoms-not-lung-function
Placebo treatment may make asthma patients feel better but not actually lessen disease, according to a new study. The finding helps clarify the benefits and limitations of the placebo effect. It may also influence how doctors measure successful treatment. The placebo effect is a well-known phenomenon in which patients' conditions improve when

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iVVU-MxdrY
What are placebo studies? Is the placebo effect a social phenomena? Could we use the placebo effect to design better healthcare facilities? Can placebo cure

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/opinion/decongestant-placebo-medicine.html
Ted Kaptchuk is a professor of medicine and professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School. He directs the Harvard-wide program in placebo studies hosted at the Beth

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Placebo-Effects-in-Medicine.-Kaptchuk-Miller/59483636e2535c5c29a67bcd376fe75ea940890d
The placebo effect is referred to as a beneficial effect of a treatment which cannot be attributed to the drugs used in the treatment, and it is suggested that the use of a placebo should not be considered a substitute for a drug. Expand. PDF. 1 Excerpt.