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2015-04-17 19:35:39.905893+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Whoah: The Placebome: The Impact of Genetics to the Placebo Response

“We’re discovering that the placebo is not the only component in the placebo effect,” explains the paper’s coauthor Ted Kaptchuk, Director of the PiPS at BIDMC and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. “These neurotransmitter pathways, which are modified by genetics, are pathways that both drugs and the placebo act on. This now suggests that a drug could change a placebo response and a placebo response could modify a drug response.”

Looks like it's Trends in Molecular Medicine: Genetics and the placebo effect: the placebome Kathryn T. Hallemail, Joseph Loscalzo and Ted J. Kaptchuk

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