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Placebos Can Lower Emotional Distress, Even When People Know They’re Taking Placebos – ScienceAlert
New research exploring the strange boundaries of the placebo effect has turned up another mysterious oddity: placebos have the power to reduce neural markers of emotional distress, even in cases where people have been told in advance they’re only tak
New research exploring the strange boundaries of the placebo effect has turned up another mysterious oddity: placebos have the power to reduce neural markers of emotional distress, even in cases where people have been told in advance they’re only taking a placebo, and not an active drug.
It’s a result the researchers claim may be a first-of-its-kind demonstration of a ‘non-deceptive’ placebo conferring genuine, measurable psychobiological changes not just self-reported benefits or behavioural o…
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