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

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

YouTuber and physician Rohin Francis, MBBS, does a deep-dive on the power of placebo. The following is a partial transcript of this video; note that errors are possible. Francis: The placebo effect.

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, ...

Recently, a team of researchers set out to study the antidepressant effects of ketamine — and stumbled upon a medical phenomenon. The double-blind study at Stanford’s School of Medicine recruited ...

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

Harnessing the placebo effect for pain relief could help to reduce dosages of painkillers, lowering the risk of both side effects and becoming dependent on medication. Because it's a psychological ...

How would you define optimism? Would you call it seeing the glass as half-full rather than half-empty? Perhaps say optimism is a positive attitude or the ability to see the bright side of a situation.

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...