The Brain Placebo of Thinking Positive

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Society & Culture, Science, Tech News

4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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1:01.8	Welcome to Cool Stuff Daily. I'm Raja Rizu. He's Marcus Paff. Today we're going to look at
1:06.8	positive thinking and how it can actually help keep you healthier.
1:11.7	Turning now to Science News and ScienceNews.org with a story from author Simon Macon.
1:18.3	Positive thinking may boost the body's defenses against disease.
1:23.2	Increasing activity in a brain region that controls motivation and expectation, specifically the brain's reward system, is linked with making more antibodies after receiving a vaccine.
1:35.2	The findings suggest these boosts were related to the placebo effect.
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