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Those many places we know of so far for Anavex is Australia and Sweden, if of course we discount North American as a dark place.

Are different folks more susceptible to placebo and is there a placebo gene? Do investigators behave differently in different cultures or perhaps both?

Massive and unexpected placebo response is a rotten problem for clinical trials that I have seen before. It can loose you a good investment :-)

The most interesting facet of this, to me at least, is how might we harness the placebo and even the so called nocebo effect.

Harnessing the placebo effect: Exploring the influence of physician characteristics on placebo response.

Worth a Google, quite few musings on this topic which is beginning to be acceptable science.