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Placebo effect

Woman holding a bottle of placebo medicine

Placebos reduce stress, anxiety, depression — even when people know they are placebos

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

This image shows that the cells in yellow in the pons (left) receive input from the green cells in the cingulate cortex (rACC, right), with subdivisions Cg1 and Cg2.

Neuroscientists discover brain circuitry of placebo effect for pain relief

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

Placebo controls—gold standard for EFFICACY trials—have no place in SAFETY trials

Categories Bloggers

Feelings of guilt can be reduced by taking placebos. Potentially, this finding could help people who suffer from disproportionate feelings of guilt and its consequences. (Photo: Adobe Stock)(Photo: Adobe Stock)

Placebos reduce feelings of guilt

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

A swiss practitioner of "the secret" praying over a bleeding patient

Secret Swiss technique to stop bleeding ineffective after heart surgery

Categories Health

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Categories Bloggers

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