How the Placebo Effect Works in Psychology Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/how-the-placebo-effect-works-in-psychology Thu, 21 Feb 2019 15:19:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 The Placebo Effect http://toursmaps.com/the-placebo-effect.html http://toursmaps.com/the-placebo-effect.html#respond Thu, 21 Feb 2019 15:19:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=270835 The brain can be an important tool when it comes to our health – it’s one of the reasons the placebo effect is so powerful. Clinical trials of antidepressents have shown that patients treated with placebos improve about 75 per cent as much as they would have with antidepressants themselves. The same argument has been made for other common pills. You feel the early symptoms of a cold coming on, so you pop a couple of vitamin C, because that will help your cold, right? Well, yes – but not in the way you think. Despite decades of testing, there

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