placebo

The country’s provisional go-ahead could increase pressure already being exerted on the US Food and Drug Administration to approve the therapy.

A negative version of the placebo effect may be behind many instances of mild side effects associated with the jabs, a study suggests.

The Myth of Mirror Neurons, Curious, Shadow Medicine, and Doctored

Sham treatments can both reduce pain and increase pleasure, and do so affecting similar circuitry in the brain.

Expectations can make you ill. Fear can make you fragile. Understanding the nocebo effect may help prevent this painful phenomenon.

Rodents experience placebo-induced pain relief, providing a new model with which to investigate the phenomenon.

People with certain personality traits are more likely to get pain relief from a placebo, a finding that could help improve clinical trials.

The placebo effect in clinical trials of the mental disorder has increased over the past decade.

Some pain-relief placebos work in part by activating a cannabinoid receptor, stimulating the same pathway as marijuana.

A new study confirms that a “trial effect”—in which patients improve simply as a result of taking part in a drug study—once existed among HIV trial participants.

What substance is supposed to have no effect but can make people feel better, has no chance for a big monetary payoff but is worth billions, and is used in virtually every rigorous clinical trial but has no single, universal formulation?