Are All Placebo Effects Equal? Placebo Pills, Sham Acupuncture, Cue Conditioning and Their Association

Acupuncture for Chronic Pain

(2012) Andrew J. Vickers et al.   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Functional connectivity of the frontoparietal network predicts cognitive modulation of pain

(2012) Jian Kong et al.   PAIN

Lessons From Recent Research About the Placebo Effect—From Art to Science

(2011) Howard Brody et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Placebo studies and ritual theory: a comparative analysis of Navajo, acupuncture and biomedical healing

(2011) T. J. Kaptchuk   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Effect of Treatment Expectation on Drug Efficacy: Imaging the Analgesic Benefit of the Opioid Remifentanil

(2011) U. Bingel et al.   Science Translational Medicine

How large are the nonspecific effects of acupuncture? A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

(2010) Klaus Linde et al.   BMC Medicine

The Impact of Placebo, Psychopathology, and Expectations on the Response to Acupuncture Needling in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain

(2010) Ajay Darsh Wasan et al.   JOURNAL OF PAIN

Dispositional Optimism Predicts Placebo Analgesia

(2010) Andrew L. Geers et al.   JOURNAL OF PAIN

Biological, clinical, and ethical advances of placebo effects

(2010) Damien G Finniss et al.   LANCET

Are Sham Acupuncture Interventions More Effective than (Other) Placebos? A Re-Analysis of Data from the Cochrane Review on Placebo Effects

(2010) Klaus Linde et al.   FORSCHENDE KOMPLEMENTARMEDIZIN

An fMRI study on the interaction and dissociation between expectation of pain relief and acupuncture treatment

(2009) Jian Kong et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Reproducibility of placebo analgesia: Effect of dispositional optimism

(2009) Debbie L. Morton et al.   PAIN

Do “placebo responders” exist?

(2008) Ted J. Kaptchuk et al.   Contemporary Clinical Trials

A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study on the Neural Mechanisms of Hyperalgesic Nocebo Effect

(2008) J. Kong et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Consistency of the placebo effect

(2008) Ben Whalley et al.   JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOMATIC RESEARCH

Expectancy and treatment interactions: A dissociation between acupuncture analgesia and expectancy evoked placebo analgesia

(2008) Jian Kong et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Learning potentiates neurophysiological and behavioral placebo analgesic responses

(2008) Luana Colloca et al.   PAIN