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Ted Jack Kaptchuk

Professor of Medicine
617-945-7827

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.

The brain circuitry mediating antipruritic effects of acupuncture.
Authors: Authors: Napadow V, Li A, Loggia ML, Kim J, Schalock PC, Lerner E, Tran TN, Ring J, Rosen BR, Kaptchuk TJ, Pfab F.
Cereb Cortex
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Functional network architecture predicts psychologically mediated analgesia related to treatment in chronic knee pain patients.
Authors: Authors: Hashmi JA, Kong J, Spaeth R, Khan S, Kaptchuk TJ, Gollub RL.
J Neurosci
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Sharing pain and relief: neural correlates of physicians during treatment of patients.
Authors: Authors: Jensen KB, Petrovic P, Kerr CE, Kirsch I, Raicek J, Cheetham A, Spaeth R, Cook A, Gollub RL, Kong J, Kaptchuk TJ.
Mol Psychiatry
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Expectancy and Conditioning in Placebo Analgesia: Separate or Connected Processes?
Authors: Authors: Kirsch I, Kong J, Sadler P, Spaeth R, Cook A, Kaptchuk T, Gollub R.
Psychol Conscious (Wash D C)
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Altered placebo and drug labeling changes the outcome of episodic migraine attacks.
Authors: Authors: Kam-Hansen S, Jakubowski M, Kelley JM, Kirsch I, Hoaglin DC, Kaptchuk TJ, Burstein R.
Sci Transl Med
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Well-loved music robustly relieves pain: a randomized, controlled trial.
Authors: Authors: Hsieh C, Kong J, Kirsch I, Edwards RR, Jensen KB, Kaptchuk TJ, Gollub RL.
PLoS One
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Phantom acupuncture: dissociating somatosensory and cognitive/affective components of acupuncture stimulation with a novel form of placebo acupuncture.
Authors: Authors: Lee J, Napadow V, Kim J, Lee S, Choi W, Kaptchuk TJ, Park K.
PLoS One
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Meditation's impact on default mode network and hippocampus in mild cognitive impairment: a pilot study.
Authors: Authors: Wells RE, Yeh GY, Kerr CE, Wolkin J, Davis RB, Tan Y, Spaeth R, Wall RB, Walsh J, Kaptchuk TJ, Press D, Phillips RS, Kong J.
Neurosci Lett
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Specifying the nonspecific components of acupuncture analgesia.
Authors: Authors: Vase L, Baram S, Takakura N, Yajima H, Takayama M, Kaptchuk TJ, Schou S, Jensen TS, Zachariae R, Svensson P.
Pain
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A systematic review of the prevalence of herb usage among racial/ethnic minorities in the United States.
Authors: Authors: Gardiner P, Whelan J, White LF, Filippelli AC, Bharmal N, Kaptchuk TJ.
J Immigr Minor Health
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