Placebo Power: Patients Still Feel Relief Even When They Know They are Taking Placebos

Originally shared by Neuroscience News

Placebo Power: Patients Still Feel Relief Even When They Know They are Taking Placebos 

Now, CU-Boulder graduate student Scott Schafer, who works in Associate Professor Tor Wager's Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, has conducted an intriguing piece of research to advance knowledge about how and when the placebo effect works - or doesn't.

The research is in Journal of Pain. (full access paywall)

#psychology   #placebo   #pain  
http://neurosciencenews.com/placebo-effect-psychology-pain-2309

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