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The imaginary pill that can cure mental illness

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AsapSCIENCE

Science, Biology, Comedy, Youtuber, Life Sciences

4.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

New studies on pain and mental illness are blowing minds - because a lot of what works best is ... placebo? Today we are talking about the new research on placebo pills, how even imagining taking a pill helps and also how it relates the future of medicine. We even explain exactly HOW placebo pills work.


STUDYTIME: why imaginary pills are curing illness!


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0:00.0

controversial subjects with the facts can be tense but we are a subscience here to make things make

0:04.9

sense today we are talking about the power of imagination how amazing your brain is which includes

0:12.4

the placebo effect it includes an imaginary drug that could literally help with mental illness

0:18.5

and more it's super exciting and I am,

0:22.0

I need these cures.

0:23.2

I need this help and I found these studies really interesting.

0:26.7

So here we go.

0:28.8

I need these cures.

0:29.9

I need to do.

0:31.5

How you doing?

0:33.3

I'm all right.

0:34.3

I buy.

0:36.1

Okay.

0:36.7

So here's something else I need help with.

0:39.0

I really want to make more music.

0:42.7

And I have been making more music, but I just like need a deadline or something.

0:47.4

No, okay, sorry.

0:47.9

I think you just need to, the music you've made is amazing.

0:50.2

You need to just release it.

0:51.2

I know, but this round I was just kind of like, it'd be nice to have like a little EP as a, as opposed to just like, okay, everyone else can sound off in the comments,

0:58.9

but what you're doing is doing that like pushing things off to have like a big impact. I don't want

1:03.7

a big impact. No, but what musicians do now is they release a song, they release a song, they release a song. They release a song. Then they conglomerate them all into an EP later with maybe two extra songs.

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