Clinical Research: Phase 1 - Phase 4

The Placebo Problem, Part 4: Neurobiological Mechanisms

This is the fourth in our series examining the increasingly high placebo response issues plaguing analgesia and psychiatry clinical trials. Additional posts in the series are located here. As with many other aspects of placebo research, the majority of research on underlying neurobiological mechanisms has focused on placebo analgesia. In fact, roughly 40 positron emission...