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Editorial
. 2018 Oct 25;9(Suppl 3):1533370.
doi: 10.1080/20008198.2018.1533370. eCollection 2018.

How do placebos work?

Fabrizio Benedetti  1   2 , Alessandro Piedimonte  1 , Elisa Frisaldi  1
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Editorial

How do placebos work?

Fabrizio Benedetti et al. Eur J Psychotraumatol. .
No abstract available

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