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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.

Machine learning-based prediction of clinical pain using multimodal neuroimaging and autonomic metrics.
Authors: Authors: Lee J, Mawla I, Kim J, Loggia ML, Ortiz A, Jung C, Chan ST, Gerber J, Schmithorst VJ, Edwards RR, Wasan AD, Berna C, Kong J, Kaptchuk TJ, Gollub RL, Rosen BR, Napadow V.
Pain
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COMT and Alpha-Tocopherol Effects in Cancer Prevention: Gene-Supplement Interactions in Two Randomized Clinical Trials.
Authors: Authors: Hall KT, Buring JE, Mukamal KJ, Vinayaga Moorthy M, Wayne PM, Kaptchuk TJ, Battinelli EM, Ridker PM, Sesso HD, Weinstein SJ, Albanes D, Cook NR, Chasman DI.
J Natl Cancer Inst
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Hope in Medicine: Applying Multidisciplinary Insights.
Authors: Authors: Kube T, Blease C, Ballou SK, Kaptchuk TJ.
Perspect Biol Med
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Correction: 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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Are Conditioned Open Placebos Feasible as an Adjunctive Treatment to Opioids? Results from a Single-Group Dose-Extender Pilot Study with Acute Pain Patients.
Authors: Authors: Bernstein MH, Magill M, Weiss AP, Kaptchuk TJ, Blease C, Kirsch I, Rich JD, Becker SJ, Mach S, Beaudoin FL.
Psychother Psychosom
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Challenges of differential placebo effects in contemporary medicine: The example of brain stimulation.
Authors: Authors: Burke MJ, Kaptchuk TJ, Pascual-Leone A.
Ann Neurol
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Corrigendum to 'Multivariate resting-state functional connectivity predicts responses to real and sham acupuncture treatment in chronic low back pain' Neuroimage Clinical, 23, 2019, 101885.
Authors: Authors: Tu Y, Ortiz A, Gollub RL, Cao J, Gerber J, Lang C, Park J, Wilson G, Shen W, Chan ST, Wasan AD, Edwards RR, Napadow V, Kaptchuk TJ, Rosen B, Kong J.
Neuroimage Clin
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Multivariate resting-state functional connectivity predicts responses to real and sham acupuncture treatment in chronic low back pain.
Authors: Authors: Tu Y, Ortiz A, Gollub RL, Cao J, Gerber J, Lang C, Park J, Wilson G, Shen W, Chan ST, Wasan AD, Edwards RR, Napadow V, Kaptchuk TJ, Rosen B, Kong J.
Neuroimage Clin
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A test of positive suggestions about side effects as a way of enhancing the analgesic response to NSAIDs.
Authors: Authors: Fernandez A, Kirsch I, Noël L, Rodondi PY, Kaptchuk TJ, Suter MR, Décosterd I, Berna C.
PLoS One
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Can Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment Build Cognitive Reserve and Learn Mindfulness Meditation? Qualitative Theme Analyses from a Small Pilot Study.
Authors: Authors: Wells RE, Kerr C, Dossett ML, Danhauer SC, Sohl SJ, Sachs BC, Feeley JW, Wolkin J, Wall R, Kaptchuk T, Press DZ, Phillips RS, Yeh GY.
J Alzheimers Dis
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