How The Placebo Effect Tricks Your Brain

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How does the placebo effect work? Here's how your brain tricks itself when it comes to medicine

References:
Niemi, M. B. (2009). Placebo Effect: A Cure in the Mind: Scientific American.Placebo Effect: A Cure in the Mind: Scientific American.

Price, D. D., Finniss, D. G., & Benedetti, F. (2008). A comprehensive review of the placebo effect: recent advances and current thought. Annu. Rev. Psychol.,59, 565-590.

Finniss, D. G., Kaptchuk, T. J., Miller, F., & Benedetti, F. (2010). Biological, clinical, and ethical advances of placebo effects. The Lancet, 375(9715), 686-695.

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[TheSUPERHAPPY]

Someone should start selling "confidence" sugar pills - I bet they would work!

[EugeneKhutoryansky]

Great video. It would be nice to have an explanation of what exactly is going on inside the brain and body that causes placebos to be effective.

[chrisbaird]

I think the placebo effect is amazing. It's real, and gives evidence to the power of the mind and body to heal itself with nothing but positive thought.

[Ziorac]

'Open wide, it's time for science.'
That's what my science teacher always used to say to me. He's in jail now.

[Chameleam]

I totally fell in love with the placebo effect when studying the medicine rituals of different tribes as an anthropology study. The placebo effect does NOT mean something that is made up or deceptive. The placebo effect is a beautiful thing that has been a part of human culture for hundreds of thousands of years.

[kitty]

Ok, but where can I buy Contradictol®?

[ShawnPhelpsVlog]

Have studies been done where a group is told they're being given placebo but are actually being given the real drug?

[donnybrkic]

When I was little and I was sad my sister would give me “magic medicine” to make me feel better. They were pieces of candy and they really helped me.

[therealorberon]

this video didn't cure me of procrastination of work. i kept clicking to watch more...

[ospididious]

At one point in my life, I was developing a random spasm in my spine. It was violent and painful and made me feel very awkward in public. There was a slight tingle before the spasm that allowed me to mentally prepare myself and take control of the neural impulse, redirecting it from my spine into my limbs and eventually out my fingers and toes. I barely have remnants of them today. All the power of the mind. I think placebos allow people to reprogram their minds and take subconscious control of their bodies to fight their ailments, in some cases. I could be wrong, but I was able to do what I did with just my mind, determination and willpower. Anyone can do it. A placebo just makes it easier to stop telling yourself "No, I can't do that."

[LadyD]

As a chronic pain patient (I have CRPS in 3/4 my body) I'm a *_HUGE_* fan of the placebo effect and am constantly trying to find ways to trick my body into feeling better!

[kaelynnnguyen]

Lmao

*feels fine*

*takes medicine for absolutely nothing*

*feels horrible*

HELP

[ACSReactions]

So great working with you guys! I'm just wondering what would happen if I took a red and blue sleeping pill...would I go to sleep, or run around like crazy...hmm...

[SuicideBunny]

"Oh you have cancer? Here take this pill, it'll cure you. Trust me, I'm a doctor."

[XGames-]

Placebo steroids. That'd be something. I've read somewhere where they did a test on 2 groups of people. One exercising and the other just thinking about it. The latter got some results as well.

[matthewthunder]

So when Neo took the red pill, was the matrix just a placebo effect?

[Lazarou]

''Open wide, it's time for science'' is my new pickup line.

[robdoghd]

"Open wide"
*always for you*

[Stefano-xgdy]

4:34 Did that advert just try to sell me a drug that made me sick?!

[tripsitter]

it's not the placebo that heals; it's our mind and body. We keep thinking that we need drugs to heal, but the placebo affect shows we have the ability to do incredible and near miraculous healing just by our will alone. Maybe we'll eventually master how to have the effect without having to be tricked