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Placebos in the Danish Daily Information: “Your Own Medicine”
[Translation]: The placebo effect has always had a bad reputation in modern medicine. It was pure imagination, calcium tablets and at most, proof that a product did not work. But now doctors,...
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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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PiPS Research Featured in Harvard Health Letter
“Putting the Placebo Effect to Work: Rather than dismiss it, we should try to understand the placebo effect and harness it when we can” The front-cover story of the April 2012 edition of the Harvard...
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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 ArticlePossible genetic explanation for the placebo effect
A patient’s genetic makeup may explain the “placebo effect,” in which people perceive that a fake treatment makes them feel better, according to a study by PiPS researchers. The findings may help...
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 ArticleBrain scans suggest that doctors ‘feel’ their patients’ pain – New article in...
The experiment involved taking scans of physicians’ brains while they were delivering treatment. The findings support the idea that patient–physician interactions significantly contribute to placebo...
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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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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