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PiPS on The Kojo Nnamdi Show
The Future of Placebos in Medical Care: New research shows that even when people know they’re taking a placebo, it still makes them feel better. Kojo, PiPS Director Ted Kaptchuk and Wayne Jonas,...
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Ted and Ira Talk Placebos on Science Friday
From NPR: A placebo can take the form of a sugar pill or even a fake surgery. It’s often used to test the effectiveness of a trial drug. Ted Kaptchuk, director of Harvard University’s Program in...
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PiPS to be on 60 Minutes Sunday 2/19/12 7pm
PiPS Associate Director Irving Kirsch and his work examining the role of the placebo response in antidepressants will be featured on 60 Minutes this coming Sunday (February 19) at 7pm. For the preview...
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60 MINUTES | Treating Depression: Is there a placebo effect?
PiPS Associate Director Irving Kirsch discusses the placebo effect with Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes this past Sunday. Click here for the video, transcript and the “60 Minutes Overtime” show.
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Boston Globe: The Placebo Effect and Depression
PiPS Associate Director Irving Kirsch is interviewed in today’s Boston Globe. Read the full article here.
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Ted Kaptchuk discusses placebos with Heather Kahn
Can A Sugar Pill Help You Feel Better? Surprising New Research on Placebos Ted Kaptchuk, Director of the Program in Placebo Studies & the Therapeutic Encounter at BIDMC, talks about the role of...
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PiPS on Channel 5 News
Patients get positive results in ‘honest’ placebo study Excerpt: “Oh, it was awful! You couldn’t leave the house. You were sick all the time,” said Linda Buonanno, who has been plagued by irritable...
View ArticleNPR Interview with Ted Kaptchuk and Arthur Barsky on the nocebo effect –...
Radio Boston (local NPR station) interviews PiPS Director, Ted Kaptchuk, and Arthur Barsky, Director of Psychiatric Research at Brigham and Women’s Hopsital and professor at Harvard Medical School, on...
View ArticleFeature article in Harvard Magazine about Ted Kaptchuk and his work
Based on extensive interviews with Ted Kaptchuk and a number of his colleagues and associates, this article sums up the ground-breaking work that Prof. Kaptchuk has overseen. Read the full text of...
View ArticleWatch “The Potential of Placebo” a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation promise story
“The placebo effect is people getting better without any active ingredients.” Harvard Medical School’s Ted Kaptchuk, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grantee, cuts across clinical specialties through...
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