It’s All in Your Head: Measuring the Placebo Effect using fMRI

Ariana Anderson University of California, Los Angeles
Measuring the placebo effect using neuroimaging would lead to significantly lower costs in drug development. Using fMRI, we have nominated several potential brain networks which change significantly post-treatment after subjects are treated with either an inert or active pill, yet not after receiving counseling treatment.
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