A new study from scientists at McGill University has gone to extraordinary lengths to investigate how strong the placebo effect may be in psychedelic research. The experiment, led by a former magician ...

Stanford University researchers found that depressed people given ketamine before undergoing anesthesia improved just as much as those given saline. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes New research ...

A new opinion article in Biology Letters – "Studying placebo effects in model organisms will help us understand them in humans" – dives into the possibility of studying the placebo effect in animals ...

The placebo effect, or the phenomenon of people feeling better while taking a fake drug just because they think they’re taking a real drug, has been proven time and time again. Now, a groundbreaking ...

Let's do a thought experiment. Round up 300 harried commuters with headaches—not hard to do on the New York subway any workday at rush hour. Of course, they are probably shouting and whining, which ...

Let's do a thought experiment. Round up 300 harried commuters with headaches—not hard to do on the New York subway any workday at rush hour. Of course, they are probably shouting and whining, which ...