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Stress and placebo effects: Two sides of the same coin
Lei Cai1*
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Bio-X Institutes, Key Laboratory for the Genetics of Developmental and Neuropsychiatric Disorders (Ministry of Education), Collaborative Innovation Center of Genetics and Development, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai,
China
Submitted: 18 September 2023 | Accepted: 25 December 2023 | Published: 26 March 2024
© 2024 by the Author (s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
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Conflict of interest
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.