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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.

Placebo effect studies are susceptible to response bias and to other types of biases.
Authors: Authors: Hróbjartsson A, Kaptchuk TJ, Miller FG.
J Clin Epidemiol
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Spatial anisotropy analyses of subcutaneous tissue layer: potential insights into its biomechanical characteristics.
Authors: Authors: Ahn AC, Kaptchuk TJ.
J Anat
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Heavy metal and pesticide content in commonly prescribed individual raw Chinese Herbal Medicines.
Authors: Authors: Harris ES, Cao S, Littlefield BA, Craycroft JA, Scholten R, Kaptchuk T, Fu Y, Wang W, Liu Y, Chen H, Zhao Z, Clardy J, Woolf AD, Eisenberg DM.
Sci Total Environ
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Placebo acupuncture as a form of ritual touch healing: a neurophenomenological model.
Authors: Authors: Kerr CE, Shaw JR, Conboy LA, Kelley JM, Jacobson E, Kaptchuk TJ.
Conscious Cogn
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Placebo by proxy.
Authors: Authors: Grelotti DJ, Kaptchuk TJ.
BMJ
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Active albuterol or placebo, sham acupuncture, or no intervention in asthma.
Authors: Authors: Wechsler ME, Kelley JM, Boyd IO, Dutile S, Marigowda G, Kirsch I, Israel E, Kaptchuk TJ.
N Engl J Med
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Placebo studies and ritual theory: a comparative analysis of Navajo, acupuncture and biomedical healing.
Authors: Authors: Kaptchuk TJ.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
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Effects of mindfulness meditation training on anticipatory alpha modulation in primary somatosensory cortex.
Authors: Authors: Kerr CE, Jones SR, Wan Q, Pritchett DL, Wasserman RH, Wexler A, Villanueva JJ, Shaw JR, Lazar SW, Kaptchuk TJ, Littenberg R, Hämäläinen MS, Moore CI.
Brain Res Bull
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Use of complementary and alternative medicine and self-rated health status: results from a national survey.
Authors: Authors: Nguyen LT, Davis RB, Kaptchuk TJ, Phillips RS.
J Gen Intern Med
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The case of acupuncture for chronic low back pain: when efficacy and comparative effectiveness conflict.
Authors: Authors: Li A, Kaptchuk TJ.
Spine (Phila Pa 1976)
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