Measuring and appraising placebo effects in clinical trials: contemporary challenges and approaches in psychiatry.
The lancet. Psychiatry May 1, 2026 Joseph J Taylor, Balázs Szigeti, Noah D Silverberg et al.
Placebo effects are among the greatest paradoxes in medical research. Although more data on placebos are available from placebo-controlled trials than on any treatment in medicine, there has been comparatively little deep interrogation of issues related to their measurement, appraisal, and interpretation. Most of the work that has been done, including that in psychiatry, is narrowly focused on...