The pharmacodynamics of placebo: expectation effects of price as a proxy for efficacy

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Neurology (P.A.L.), Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center, Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital; Department of Neurology (P.A.L.), Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI; and Department of Bioethics (S.K.), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. plewitt1@hfhs.org.
² From the Department of Neurology (P.A.L.), Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center, Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital; Department of Neurology (P.A.L.), Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI; and Department of Bioethics (S.K.), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

Editorial

Peter A LeWitt et al. Neurology. 2015.

. 2015 Feb 24;84(8):766-7.

doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000001294. Epub 2015 Jan 28.

¹ From the Department of Neurology (P.A.L.), Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center, Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital; Department of Neurology (P.A.L.), Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI; and Department of Bioethics (S.K.), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. plewitt1@hfhs.org.
² From the Department of Neurology (P.A.L.), Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center, Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital; Department of Neurology (P.A.L.), Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI; and Department of Bioethics (S.K.), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

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Placebo effect of medication cost in Parkinson disease: a randomized double-blind study.
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