The Placebo Effect: Brain Over Pain

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.3 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2011

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

A placebo is a fake medicine included in drug trials to show, through contrast, the benefits of the real medicine. Yet sometimes the patients taking the placebo still experience improvements -- why? Tune in to learn more about the placebo effect.

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