AURELIS Scientific Articles
(by Dr. Jean-Luc Mommaerts as sole or first author)
Body=Mind
- Subconceptual Processing: From Body & Mind to Health & Healing (free pdf of PhD thesis, 2014)
- Causal Thinking in Psychosomatics, with Peptic Ulcer as Case (free pdf at ResearchGate)
- Helicobacter psychologicus: Psyche Lost, Psyche Regained (free pdf at ResearchGate)
- Psyche, Soma and Seizures: Mind- Body Non-Dualism Changes the Whole Picture (free pdf at ResearchGate)
- Subconceptual Processing: Nonspecific Factor of Chronic Pain (free pdf at ResearchGate)
- The Importance of a Dual-Stance View on Non-Dualistic Reality in Chronic Pain (free pdf at ResearchGate)
- The choked heart and how to release it (free pdf at ResearchGate)
- Influence of methylphenidate treatment assumptions on cognitive function in healthy young adults in a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (free pdf from Psychol Res Behav Manag)
- From Mental to Cardiac Choking - Angina Pectoris (free pdf at ResearchGate)
- Does the Mind=Body Paradigm Change the Epileptic Landscape? (free pdf at ResearchGate)
- Does Deep Purpose Diminish the Risk of Alzheimer Dementia? (abstract at ResearchGate)
Double-Blind Studies
- Lack of Blinding in a Cloud of Unknowing: What Remains of Antidepressants’ Effectiveness? (pdf at Psychiatry Research - temporary paywall)
- Unconscious Unblinding: Antidepressants Unveiled? (free pdf at ResearchGate)
- Serial Treatment Assumption Testing (STAT) Towards Better Evidence for Evidence Based Medicine (free pdf at ResearchGate - with acknowledgment prof. Heejung Bang)
- Cloud or Clock: Implications of Subconceptual Processing for Placebo, Double-Blind Studies and Medicine in General (free pdf at ResearchGate)
- Have PDE5-Inhibitors actually been proven yet? (free pdf at ResearchGate)
Alternative Medicines
- FROM "DOES IT WORK?" TO "WHAT IS 'IT'?" implications for voodoo, psychotherapy, pop-psychology, regular, and alternative medicine (abstract from Perspect Biol Med)
- Acupuncture for Dyspnea on Exertion in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: No Blindness (abstract from Arch Intern Med)
- Acupuncture for IVF: Do not let needles stand in the way of empathy (free pdf from Fertil Steril)
- It's too soon to recommend probiotics for colic (no abstract from J Fam Pract.)
Placebo and Empathy
- The Placebo Effect: How the Subconscious Fits in (abstract from Perspect Biol Med)
- Placebo as Communication to Neur(on)al Networks in Chronic Functional Pain (free pdf at ResearchGate)
- Placebos have many 'side-effects' (free pdf at ResearchGate)
- From Placebo to 'Open-Label Placebo' to Open Altogether (free pdf at ResearchGate)
- Empathy Beyond the Conceptual Level: Core Nonspecific Factors of Psychotherapy (free pdf from Perspect Biol Med)
Medical A.I.
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Real World Evidence for A.I.-Driven Coaching Chat-Bots (free pdf at ResearchGate)
COVID-Related
- Where is the Mind in COVID-19 Causality? (free pdf from Brain, Behavior, and Immunity - Health)
- The Role of Social Nocebo in COVID-19 (ResearchGate)
- COVID-Vaccinations: Why it Matters to Know the Real Effectiveness (response, freely readable at BMJ)
- COVID Vaccination Studies: From Double-Blind to Hardly-Blind? (response, freely readable at BMJ)
- Is the COVID Upsurge in the UK Caused by New Strain or (Brexit) Stress? (response, freely readable at BMJ)
- Blindness breach powered by inadvertent placebo proneness may confound COVID-19 vaccination study results. (response, freely readable at BMJ)
- The Importance of Testing for Blindness in COVID-19 Vaccination Trials (response, freely readable at BMJ)
- Remdesivir or 'We,' Which Cure Will it Be? (free pdf at ResearchGate)
- Enter Mind -Exit Remdesivir? (free pdf at ResearchGate)