The placebo effect shows just how powerful the mind can be. We know it’s “just a sugar pill” or a fake treatment, yet the ...

Over the past month or so, I have seen several advertisements for different modalities for pain relief. Seeing these advertisements, which featured devices such as TENS units and ultrasound machines, ...

Catarina Craveiro, a biomedical research technician from Lisbon, had been hobbled by lower back pain from scoliosis since ...

The placebo effect is a fascinating phenomenon where patients experience real changes in their health after receiving a treatment that has no therapeutic effect. Placebo effect This effect highlights ...

When people take a sugar pill that they believe is a painkiller, it can lessen their experience of pain. Researchers have long known about this phenomenon, called the placebo effect. But the ...

Co-authored by neuroplastician, speaker, and author Jasmine Benson. Imagine you take a sugar pill, believing it to be a powerful painkiller, and your pain actually diminishes. Is it all in your head, ...

Remember that epic moment from Space Jam (the first one, of course, with Michael Jordan) where Bugs Bunny gives his teammates that very Michael's 'Secret Stuff,' which makes them incredibly strong and ...

In PART 2 of this series, I will try to explain (yet again) why we need to control for placebo effects, if we want to determine whether a treatment works or not. You are ill, consult a doctor who ...

New research has found that mindfulness meditation reduces pain by engaging a distinct brain pathway, separate from the pathway activated by a placebo. The standalone analgesic effect that mindfulness ...

A survey of general practitioners in Israel and 20 European countries finds GPs prescribe placebo treatments on average once ...

Does lavender oil on your pillow really help you sleep better, or is it just placebo? Discover the truth behind this bedtime ritual and how to use it safely.