David Fiorentino, MD, PhD
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Conditioned pharmacotherapeutic effects: a preliminary study.
Psychosom Med. 2010; (2): 192-7
To test the hypothesize that psoriasis patients treated under a partial schedule of pharmacologic (corticosteroid) reinforcement would show less severe symptoms and relapse than those given the same amount of drug under standard conditions. Behavioral conditioning as an inherent component of many pharmacotherapeutic protocols has never been examined.
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