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How to Study Placebo Responses in Motion Sickness with a Rotation Chair Paradigm in Healthy Participants
Published on: December 14, 2014
[Placebo response and placebo effect: mechanisms, mediators, moderators]
Paul Enck1, Sibylle Klosterhalfen
1Abteilung für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, Medizinische Universitätsklinik Tübingen, Tübingen. paul.enck@uni-tuebingen.de
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