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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.

Recent clinical trials of acupuncture in the West: responses from the practitioners.
Authors: Authors: Kaptchuk TJ, Chen KJ, Song J.
Chin J Integr Med
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The impact of placebo, psychopathology, and expectations on the response to acupuncture needling in patients with chronic low back pain.
Authors: Authors: Wasan AD, Kong J, Pham LD, Kaptchuk TJ, Edwards R, Gollub RL.
J Pain
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Low-dose amitriptyline for treatment of persistent arm pain due to repetitive use.
Authors: Authors: Goldman RH, Stason WB, Park SK, Kim R, Mudgal S, Davis RB, Kaptchuk TJ.
Pain
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Factors that influence practitioners' interpretations of evidence from alternative medicine trials: a factorial vignette experiment embedded in a national survey.
Authors: Authors: Tilburt JC, Miller FG, Jenkins S, Kaptchuk TJ, Clarridge B, Bolcic-Jankovic D, Emanuel EJ, Curlin FA.
Med Care
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Serum correlates of the placebo effect in irritable bowel syndrome.
Authors: Authors: Kokkotou E, Conboy LA, Ziogas DC, Quilty MT, Kelley JM, Davis RB, Lembo AJ, Kaptchuk TJ.
Neurogastroenterol Motil
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Biological, clinical, and ethical advances of placebo effects.
Authors: Authors: Finniss DG, Kaptchuk TJ, Miller F, Benedetti F.
Lancet
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Which patients improve: characteristics increasing sensitivity to a supportive patient-practitioner relationship.
Authors: Authors: Conboy LA, Macklin E, Kelley J, Kokkotou E, Lembo A, Kaptchuk T.
Soc Sci Med
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The effect of Xuefu Zhuyu Decoction on in vitro endothelial progenitor cell tube formation.
Authors: Authors: Gao D, Wu LY, Jiao YH, Chen WY, Chen Y, Kaptchuk TJ, Lu B, Song J, Chen KJ.
Chin J Integr Med
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Unexplained infertility treated with acupuncture and herbal medicine in Korea.
Authors: Authors: Park JJ, Kang M, Shin S, Choi E, Kwon S, Wee H, Nam B, Kaptchuk TJ.
J Altern Complement Med
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Challenges and recommendations for placebo controls in randomized trials in physical and rehabilitation medicine: a report of the international placebo symposium working group.
Authors: Authors: Fregni F, Imamura M, Chien HF, Lew HL, Boggio P, Kaptchuk TJ, Riberto M, Hsing WT, Battistella LR, Furlan A.
Am J Phys Med Rehabil
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