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, ...

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 ...

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

Brain imaging shows activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, a pain-processing region shown above in yellow, when a patient responds to a placebo for pain relief, but the true mechanism for the ...

A fascinating study published in 2018 found patients suffering from cancer-related fatigue displayed significant improvement in their symptoms after being given an inert placebo. All the subjects were ...

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.