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

Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines —and people can be trained to do it themselves using the power of brain scans and positive thinking, ...

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

A newly identified brain pathway in mice could explain why placebos, or interventions designed to have no therapeutic effect, still relieve pain. Developing drugs that target this pathway may lead to ...

Over the past month or so, I have seen several advertisements for different modalities for pain relief. Seeing these advertisements, which featured devices such as TENS units and ultrasound machines, ...

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 ...

Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. The placebo tablets used in ...

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

Almost everyone is familiar with the placebo effect. Patients who believe they have received an effective remedy tend to feel better and show improvement, even when the remedy is a sham treatment or ...