Are placebo controls necessary to test new antidepressants and anxiolytics?

World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki

2000 • 2,287 citations

Ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects

2003 • 1,972 citations

Placebo Response in Studies of Major Depression

2002 • 1,106 citations

Listening to Prozac but hearing placebo: A meta-analysis of antidepressant medication.

1998 • 496 citations

Symptom Reduction and Suicide Risk in Patients Treated With Placebo in Antidepressant Clinical Trials

2000 • 484 citations

Effectiveness of St John's Wort in Major Depression

2001 • 380 citations

The Ethics of Placebo-Controlled Trials — A Middle Ground

2001 • 347 citations

Symptom reduction and suicide risk in patients treated with placebo in antidepressant clinical trials: a replication analysis of the Food and Drug Administration Database

2001 • 100 citations

The use of placebo control groups in the assessment of psychiatric drugs: an historical context

2000 • 44 citations

Placebo control groups in randomized treatment trials: a statistician’s perspective

2000 • 40 citations