Researchers from Britain and Germany used brain scans to map how a person's feelings and past experiences can influence the effectiveness of medicines, and found that a powerful painkilling drug with a true biological effect can appear not to be working if a patient has been primed to expect it to fail.Via Justin Landwehr.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
The Reverse Placebo
If education and ignorance can be positive placebos, can the reverse be true?:
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