How can we tell if a depression treatment works beyond placebo? A new real-world method measuring placebo shows that ...

For years, people from CEOs to novelists have taken tiny amounts of psychedelics to support well-being. New research shows ...

Like the pop culture trope, the placebo effect has an ‘evil twin’. While the placebo effect is said to promote healing by influencing a person’s beliefs, the nocebo effect is claimed to harm through ...

There is a saying in medicine that goes double for psychiatry: "You shall not lie." So the question is: Is it possible to prescribe a placebo without lying? There are two kinds of placebo: a pure ...

Catarina Craveiro, a biomedical research technician from Lisbon, had been hobbled by lower back pain from scoliosis since ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Just thinking that a medicine will relieve pain is enough to prompt the brain to release its own natural painkillers, and soothe painful sensations, a new University of Michigan ...

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