Microdosing might not work the way we think—but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t work. Here’s what science and the placebo effect ...

A recent study published in the British Medical Journal has shown that even when patients know they're taking a placebo, the ...

For decades, the placebo effect — the phenomenon where a patient’s condition improves after receiving an inert treatment, often a sugar pill, because they believe it to be real medication ...

It’s the first program in the world devoted to the interdisciplinary study of the placebo effect. The term “placebo” refers to a dummy pill passed off as a genuine pharmaceutical ...

Our data confirm that, although significant placebo and nocebo effects were found on days 1 and 8, the nocebo effect was consistently stronger. Both effects were primarily influenced by the most ...

"Microdosing" psychedelics, taking sub-perceptual doses of substances like LSD or psilocybin, has gone from fringe experimentation to mainstream obsession. Advocates claim benefits such as ...