A recent experiment intended to better chart the operational cartography of the placebo and nocebo effects utilized an fMRI machine to track subjects' neurological activity when they were told placebo treatments would either reduce pain, increase pain, or have no effect on a mild bit of pain triggered by heat on their skin.
A placebo is a neutral substan…
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