It's Friday, November 25th, 2016, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds. I'm Injaviscontas.

And I'm Kishore Hari. Each week, we bring you a new, in-depth exploration of the space where science, politics, and society collide.

We endeavor to find out what's true, what's left to discover, and why it all matters.

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What do you think that is?

CRISPR.

Oh, not CRISPR, even though fans of the show know that I love talking about it.

No, it's the brain.

The brain comes up in many different episodes, whether we are talking to psychiatrists, psychologists,

neuroscientists of all shapes and designs.

And after a year and a half of talking to so

many of these people, you know what I've come to the conclusion is? I know so little about the brain.

And collectively, we know still pretty little about the brain. And this week, I set out to

explore why we don't know so much about the brain in a really

interesting way. We've talked about placebos before on this show pretty extensively. But we're

going to talk about placebos this week in the context of our brain. In the intricate ways that

placebo's nocebos and even false memories indicate that our brain in the intricate ways that placebos, nocebos, and even false memories indicate that

our brain is more powerful than we give it credit for in terms of advancing chemistry throughout

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