Assertion: placebo's effect | /r/Desires | brain mechanisms
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text: In this study, we used a novel experimental design and found that placebo and nocebo [negative placebo] effects rely on brain mechanisms that are not dependent on cognitive awareness," explains first author Karin Jensen, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry and the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Program in Placebo Studies (PiPS) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School.
text: Weused a novel experimental design and found that placebo and nocebo effects rely on brain mechanisms that are not dependent on cognitive awareness,” said Karin Jensen, HMS research fellow in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter (PiPS) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and first author of the paper.