Publications

Bernstein, M.H., Rosenfield, M.N., Blease, C, Magill, M., Terek, R.M., Savulescu, J., Beaudoin, F., Rich, J.D., Wartolowska, K. (2022). How do U.S. orthopedic surgeons view placebo-controlled surgical trials? A pilot online survey study. Journal of Medical Ethics.

Rozenkrantz, L., Kube, T., Bernstein, M.H., & Gabrielli, J.D.E. (2022). How beliefs about coronavirus disease (COVID) influence COVID-like symptoms? A longitudinal study. Health Psychology, 41, 519-526

Rosenfield, M.+, & Bernstein, M.H. (2021). The importance of patient expectations: A mixed-methods study of U.S. psychiatrists. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 781494

Bernstein, M.H., Fuchs, N. ‡ , Rosenfield, M. +, Weiss, A., Blease, C., Locher, C., Magill, M., Rich, J.D., Beaudoin, F. (2021). Treating pain with open-label placebos: A qualitative study with post-surgical pain patients. The Journal of Pain, 11, 1518-1529

Heiss, U., Rosenfield, M. +, & Bernstein, M.H. (2021). Can the open label placebo rationale be optimized? Frontiers in Pain Management, 2, 734882

Bernstein, M.H., Rosenfield, M.R. +, Fuchs, N. ‡ , Magill, M., Blease, C.R., Beaudoin, F.L., Rich, J.D., Wartolowska, K., & Terek, R.M. (2021). How Orthopedic Surgeons View Open Label Placebo Pills – A Pilot Study: Ethical and Effective, but Opposed to Personal Use. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 151, 110638

Bernstein, M.H., Locher, C., Buergler, S., Stewart-Ferrer, S., Dossett, M.L, Grose, D., DesRoches, C., Miller, F., & Blease, C. (2020). Primary care providers’ use of and attitudes towards placebos: An exploratory focus group study with US physicians. British Journal of Health Psychology, 25, 596-615.

Bernstein, M.H., Locher, C., Kube, T., Buergler, S., Stewart-Ferrer, S., & Blease, C. (2020). Putting the ‘art’ into the ‘art of medicine’: The under-explored role of artifacts in placebo studies. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1354

Bernstein, M.H., Magill, M., Weiss, A., Kaptchuk, T.J., Blease, C., Rich, J.D., Mach, S., & Beaudoin, F.L. (2019). Are conditioned open placebos feasible as an adjunctive treatment to opioids? Results from a single-group dose-extender pilot study with acute pain patients. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 88, 380-382.

Blease, C., Bernstein, M.H., & Locher, C. (2020) Open label placebo clinical trials: Is it the pill, the rationale, or the researcher allegiance? BMJ – Evidence Based Medicine, 25, 159-165

Bernstein, M.H., & Brown, W.A. (2017). The placebo effect in psychiatry. Current Psychiatry, 16, 29-34

Bernstein, M.H., Wood, M.D., & Colby, S.M. (2016). A new paradigm for administering placebo alcohol to underage college students. Addictive Behaviors, 52, 22-27 doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2015.08.004