Researchers have found opioids don’t mitigate pain any better than a placebo. Researchers in Australia have found that for low back pain sufferers in their mid-40s, opioids don’t mitigate pain any ...

Did you ever feel your own shoulders relax when you saw a friend receive a shoulder massage? For those of you who said “yes,” congratulations, your brain is using its power to create a “placebo effect ...

Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines—and people can be trained to do ...

The team’s research provides compelling evidence for the brain’s influence on physiology. A deeper understanding of this mind ...

- ASC30 demonstrated placebo-adjusted weight loss of up to 7.7% in a recently completed 13-week U.S. Phase II study in participants with obesity or overweight, with better gastrointestinal ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BOSTON, Mass. (StudyFinds.org) – Could the ...

In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, researchers investigated the interplay between acute stress and placebo effects on nausea. Study: Placebo effects on nausea and motion sickness are ...