The nocebo effect appears to work more strongly and more persistently than the placebo effect when it comes to pain, a new ...

The placebo effect is a mysterious phenomenon that happens when someone’s medical symptoms are lessened through the power of suggestion and expectation – for instance if someone’s illness ...

It is interesting to read about the possible activation of endogenous opiate release in the brain as a result patient-physician interaction as a special "placebo effect." 1 This reminds me of earlier ...

It’s the first program in the world devoted to the interdisciplinary study of the placebo effect. The term “placebo” refers to a dummy pill passed off as a genuine pharmaceutical ...

A placebo is often thought of in terms of a sugar pill but it essentially refers to any treatment or intervention that in itself has no biological effect - e.g. a saline injection or even ...