Are you a Harry Potter fan? If so, you might recall the following storyline from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Harry’s friend, Ronald Weasley, is an enthusiastic hobby sportsman with ...

There is a saying in medicine that goes double for psychiatry: "You shall not lie." So the question is: Is it possible to prescribe a placebo without lying? There are two kinds of placebo: a pure ...

The placebo effect activates same brain circuits targeted by brain-stimulation therapy for depression. A network of brain regions activated by the placebo effect overlaps with several regions targeted ...

Placebos typically serve as a control treatment in clinical trials to determine the efficacy of a novel intervention in a non-biased manner. Despite the widespread use of placebos in pharmaceutical ...

Recently, a team of researchers set out to study the antidepressant effects of ketamine — and stumbled upon a medical phenomenon. The double-blind study at Stanford’s School of Medicine recruited ...