Catarina Craveiro, a biomedical research technician from Lisbon, had been hobbled by lower back pain from scoliosis since childhood, unable to do much physically and dependent on ibuprofen for relief.

The primary value of placebo controls in clinical trials is the minimization of bias.

T HE PLACEBO effect is a well-known example of the brain’s power over the body, allowing people who are poorly or in pain to ...

A placebo is often thought of in terms of a sugar pill but it essentially refers to any treatment or intervention that in itself has no biological effect - e.g. a saline injection or even ...

Ted Kaptchuk investigates placebo effects and has published over 100 articles — including clinical trials, neuroimaging studies, historical investigations, methodological reviews and ethical ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. RCC Perspectives No. 6, 2012 The Power of Beliefs: The Concept of Pla... Beecher, Henry K. 1955.

In 1998, shortly after arriving for work, a Tennessee high-school teacher reported a “gasoline-like smell” and feeling dizzy.

Hannah is an Assistant Editor at The Scientist. She earned her PhD in neuroscience from the University of Washington and completed the Dalla Lana Fellowship in Global Journalism in 2020.

Summary: Viewing natural scenes can significantly reduce how people perceive pain, a new neuroimaging study has found.