Even a placebo with no medical value can ease pain in research participants, finds a study.
“We’re still learning a lot about the critical ingredients of placebo effects. What we think now is that they require both belief in the power of the treatment and experiences that are consistent with those beliefs,” said senior author Scott Schafer from the University of Colorado Boulder.
The brain plays a key role in subjects for whom the placebo gel worked, and that more research is warranted. read more..http://www.vishwagujarat.com/lifestyle/even-a-placebo-can-ease-pain/
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