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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.

Are They Side Effects? Extraintestinal Symptoms Reported During Clinical Trials of Irritable Bowel Syndrome May Be More Severe at Baseline.
Authors: Authors: Ballou S, Hassan R, Nee J, Iturrino J, Rangan V, Cheng V, Conboy L, Kirsch I, Lembo A, Kaptchuk TJ, Kelley J.
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol
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Skin Temperature of Acupoints in Health and Disease: A Systematic Review.
Authors: Authors: Yang E, Lu W, Muñoz-Vergara D, Goldfinger E, Kaptchuk TJ, Napadow V, Ahn AC, Wayne PM.
J Integr Complement Med
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Effect of Open-label Placebo on Children and Adolescents With Functional Abdominal Pain or Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Authors: Authors: Nurko S, Saps M, Kossowsky J, Zion SR, Di Lorenzo C, Vaz K, Hawthorne K, Wu R, Ciciora S, Rosen JM, Kaptchuk TJ, Kelley JM.
JAMA Pediatr
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Reply to Arandia and Di Paolo.
Authors: Authors: Ongaro G, Kaptchuk TJ.
Pain
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Placebo effects and neuromodulation for depression: a meta-analysis and evaluation of shared mechanisms.
Authors: Authors: Burke MJ, Romanella SM, Mencarelli L, Greben R, Fox MD, Kaptchuk TJ, Pascual-Leone A, Santarnecchi E.
Mol Psychiatry
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Patients' experiences treated with open-label placebo versus double-blind placebo: a mixed methods qualitative study.
Authors: Authors: Haas JW, Ongaro G, Jacobson E, Conboy LA, Nee J, Iturrino J, Rangan V, Lembo A, Kaptchuk TJ, Ballou S.
BMC Psychol
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Patient-clinician brain concordance underlies causal dynamics in nonverbal communication and negative affective expressivity.
Authors: Authors: Ellingsen DM, Duggento A, Isenburg K, Jung C, Lee J, Gerber J, Mawla I, Sclocco R, Edwards RR, Kelley JM, Kirsch I, Kaptchuk TJ, Toschi N, Napadow V.
Transl Psychiatry
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Frequency of Adverse Events in the Placebo Arms of COVID-19 Vaccine Trials: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Authors: Authors: Haas JW, Bender FL, Ballou S, Kelley JM, Wilhelm M, Miller FG, Rief W, Kaptchuk TJ.
JAMA Netw Open
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Genotypes of Pain and Analgesia in a Randomized Trial of Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Authors: Authors: Vollert J, Wang R, Regis S, Yetman H, Lembo AJ, Kaptchuk TJ, Cheng V, Nee J, Iturrino J, Loscalzo J, Hall KT, Silvester JA.
Front Psychiatry
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Improving Medication Tolerance: A Pilot Study in Disorders of Gut-brain Interaction Treated With Tricyclic Antidepressants.
Authors: Authors: Ballou S, Iturrino J, Rangan V, Cheng V, Kelley JM, Lembo A, Kaptchuk TJ, Nee J.
J Clin Gastroenterol
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