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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.

Patients' attitudes about the use of placebo treatments: telephone survey.
Authors: Authors: Hull SC, Colloca L, Avins A, Gordon NP, Somkin CP, Kaptchuk TJ, Miller FG.
BMJ
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Meditation for adults with mild cognitive impairment: a pilot randomized trial.
Authors: Authors: Wells RE, Kerr CE, Wolkin J, Dossett M, Davis RB, Walsh J, Wall RB, Kong J, Kaptchuk T, Press D, Phillips RS, Yeh G.
J Am Geriatr Soc
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Genetic biomarkers of placebo response: what could it mean for future trial design?
Authors: Authors: Hall KT, Kaptchuk TJ.
Clin Investig (Lond)
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The brain circuitry underlying the temporal evolution of nausea in humans.
Authors: Authors: Napadow V, Sheehan JD, Kim J, Lacount LT, Park K, Kaptchuk TJ, Rosen BR, Kuo B.
Cereb Cortex
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Functional connectivity of the frontoparietal network predicts cognitive modulation of pain.
Authors: Authors: Kong J, Jensen K, Loiotile R, Cheetham A, Wey HY, Tan Y, Rosen B, Smoller JW, Kaptchuk TJ, Gollub RL.
Pain
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Double-blind acupuncture needle: a potential tool to investigate the nature of pain and pleasure.
Authors: Authors: Takakura N, Takayama M, Kawase A, Kaptchuk TJ, Yajima H.
ISRN Pain
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Are all placebo effects equal? Placebo pills, sham acupuncture, cue conditioning and their association.
Authors: Authors: Kong J, Spaeth R, Cook A, Kirsch I, Claggett B, Vangel M, Gollub RL, Smoller JW, Kaptchuk TJ.
PLoS One
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Placebos in 19th century medicine: a quantitative analysis of the BMJ.
Authors: Authors: Raicek JE, Stone BH, Kaptchuk TJ.
BMJ
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Nonconscious activation of placebo and nocebo pain responses.
Authors: Authors: Jensen KB, Kaptchuk TJ, Kirsch I, Raicek J, Lindstrom KM, Berna C, Gollub RL, Ingvar M, Kong J.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
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Participants' experiences of being debriefed to placebo allocation in a clinical trial.
Authors: Authors: Bishop FL, Jacobson EE, Shaw J, Kaptchuk TJ.
Qual Health Res
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