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Editorial
. 2009 Sep;124(3):445-6.
doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2009.07.042.

The placebo effect in asthma: Far more complex than simply "I shall please"

William W Busse, Robert F Lemanske Jr
Editorial

The placebo effect in asthma: Far more complex than simply "I shall please"

William W Busse et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2009 Sep.
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Diagram showing relationships between placebo treatment, internal regulatory processes, and outcomes. A challenge in placebo research is identifying the internal processes that are engaged by treatment and their brain substrates. Conditioning and expectancy may act on common or unique brain pathways, and the relationship between them may vary across disease processes and treatments. Another challenge is in identifying placebo effects on specific outcomes within the brain and periphery.(3)
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