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Ted Jack Kaptchuk

Professor of Medicine
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Ted J. Kaptchuk is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Harvard-wide Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter (PiPS) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.  He is also a professor of Global Health and Social Medicine.  

For more information, see his personal website.

Affiliation:

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Address: 
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
330 Brookline Avenue
Boston, MA 02215

As a leading figure in placebo studies, a scholar of East Asian medicine, and an academic authority on medical pluralism, Professor Kaptchuk's career has spanned multiple disciplines, drawing upon concepts, research designs and analytical methods from the humanities and basic and clinical and social sciences.

Catechol-O-Methyltransferase moderates effect of stress mindset on affect and cognition.
Authors: Authors: Crum AJ, Akinola M, Turnwald BP, Kaptchuk TJ, Hall KT.
PLoS One
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Parent management training for conduct problems in children: Enhancing treatment to improve therapeutic change.
Authors: Authors: Kazdin AE, Glick A, Pope J, Kaptchuk TJ, Lecza B, Carrubba E, McWhinney E, Hamilton N.
Int J Clin Health Psychol
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The National Cancer Institute's Conference on Acupuncture for Symptom Management in Oncology: State of the Science, Evidence, and Research Gaps.
Authors: Authors: Zia FZ, Olaku O, Bao T, Berger A, Deng G, Fan AY, Garcia MK, Herman PM, Kaptchuk TJ, Ladas EJ, Langevin HM, Lao L, Lu W, Napadow V, Niemtzow RC, Vickers AJ, Shelley Wang X, Witt CM, Mao JJ.
J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr
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Influence of the patient-practitioner interaction context on acupuncture outcomes in functional dyspepsia: study protocol for a multicenter randomized controlled trial.
Authors: Authors: Ko SJ, Park JW, Leem J, Kaptchuk TJ, Napadow V, Kuo B, Gerber J, Dimisko L, Yeo I, Lee J, Kim J.
BMC Complement Altern Med
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Network analysis of the genomic basis of the placebo effect.
Authors: Authors: Wang RS, Hall KT, Giulianini F, Passow D, Kaptchuk TJ, Loscalzo J.
JCI Insight
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Side effects can enhance treatment response through expectancy effects: an experimental analgesic randomized controlled trial.
Authors: Authors: Berna C, Kirsch I, Zion SR, Lee YC, Jensen KB, Sadler P, Kaptchuk TJ, Edwards RR.
Pain
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Open-label versus double-blind placebo treatment in irritable bowel syndrome: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
Authors: Authors: Ballou S, Kaptchuk TJ, Hirsch W, Nee J, Iturrino J, Hall KT, Kelley JM, Cheng V, Kirsch I, Jacobson E, Conboy L, Lembo A, Davis RB.
Trials
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Certainty of genuine treatment increases drug responses among intellectually disabled patients.
Authors: Authors: Jensen KB, Kirsch I, Pontén M, Rosén A, Yang K, Gollub RL, des Portes V, Kaptchuk TJ, Curie A.
Neurology
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Rewiring the primary somatosensory cortex in carpal tunnel syndrome with acupuncture.
Authors: Authors: Maeda Y, Kim H, Kettner N, Kim J, Cina S, Malatesta C, Gerber J, McManus C, Ong-Sutherland R, Mezzacappa P, Libby A, Mawla I, Morse LR, Kaptchuk TJ, Audette J, Napadow V.
Brain
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Effects of subtle cognitive manipulations on placebo analgesia - An implicit priming study.
Authors: Authors: Rosén A, Yi J, Kirsch I, Kaptchuk TJ, Ingvar M, Jensen KB.
Eur J Pain
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