Expectations may affect placebo response in patients with Parkinson's disease

Monday, August 2, 2010 - 16:28 in Health & Medicine

Individuals with Parkinson's disease were more likely to have a neurochemical response to a placebo medication if they were told they had higher odds of receiving an active drug, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.

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