Radio Boston (local NPR station) interviews PiPS Director, Ted Kaptchuk, and Arthur Barsky, Director of Psychiatric Research at Brigham and Women’s Hopsital and professor at Harvard Medical School, on ethical and other questions relating to the nocebo effect.
http://radioboston.wbur.org/2012/09/12/nocebo-effect
In February 2012, PiPS Director Ted Kaptchuk and PiPS Senior Faculty Arthur Barsky presented at Talks@Twelve, a quarterly lecture given to the Harvard Medical School community. We just received the a link to the video filmed by the Harvard Medical School Communications Office. To watch, click here.
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Last week, Penny Sarchet, a graduate student in the Department of Plant Sciences based at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, won the 2011 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize for an essay about the nocebo effect. Read her essay, published in The Guardian, here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/nov/13/nocebo-pain-wellcome-trust-prize?newsfeed=true