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Original Article

The Hawthorne effect as a pre-placebo expectation in Parkinsons disease patients participating in a randomized placebo-controlled clinical study

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Pages 442-446 | Received 04 Mar 2018, Accepted 18 Apr 2018, Published online: 10 Jan 2019

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