Skip to content

Search for:

Featured Blogs
Topics
Our Substack
Follow Us!
Contribute/Contact

Placebo effect

Woman holding a bottle of placebo medicine

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

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

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

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

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

Secret Swiss technique to stop bleeding ineffective after heart surgery

We have no idea…

Comments

Simon on A New Theory Says DMT Entities Might Be Real, and Proposes How to Test It
Sue Ann Hayes on Hidden Nuclear Protein Fuels Pancreatic Cancer’s Deadly Aggression
Curtis Webber on The GPS-Killer? This Quantum Device ‘Feels’ Motion Like a Brain—Down to the Atomic Level
Ran on How the Age You First Had Sex Could Shape How You Age Decades Later
Sparty on How the Age You First Had Sex Could Shape How You Age Decades Later

© 2026 ScienceBlog.com | Follow our RSS / XML feed