About the Authors

Arif Khan

akhan@nwcrc.net

Affiliations Northwest Clinical Research Center, Bellevue, Washington, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical School, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

James Faucett

Affiliation Northwest Clinical Research Center, Bellevue, Washington, United States of America

Pesach Lichtenberg

Affiliation Herzog Hospital, and the School of Medicine of the Hebrew University, Department of Psychiatry, Jerusalem, Israel

Irving Kirsch

Affiliations Program in Placebo Studies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom

Walter A. Brown

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK JF PL IK WAB. Performed the experiments: AK JF IK. Analyzed the data: AK JF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK. Wrote the paper: AK JF PL IK WAB.