placebo effect
There's a new Radio Lab available. It tells the story of how the placebo effect works, from shamans to depression to parkinsons disease. Apparently, 25% of the time, the placebo effect works on parkinsons - - it stops their hands from shaking. Someone mapped which part of the brain is "expecting" pain relief from the placebo effect and found it deep in the middle of the brain, making opiates. We make our own morphine when we think we need to.
Lots of other brilliant stuff on the show too.
4 comments:
Hey, speaking of the placebo effect and other things that don't really work, I guess your phone would fall into that category.
jac's cell phone is still the same. the land line was disconnected months ago.
Amazing show. To me,it reinforces the idea that we are just computers, with god really awesome coding and no instruction book.
It also says that bedside manner is at least 50% of the medical profession. The rest can be taught.
Bedside manner is for hippies.
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