The Power of the Placebo: How Your Mind Can Treat and Prevent Disease

Published August 9, 2013

The Power Of The Placebo: How Your Mind Can Treat And Prevent Disease
In some cases, negative thinking is the cause of the "nocebo effect" — in which patients feel worse after learning that a treatment may have negative side effects. In fact, in one study, asthmatics who inhaled a harmless solution that they had been …
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Fighting FOMO: 3 Strategies To Beat Your Fear Of Missing Out
Kids use the term to express concern about missing parties featuring phosphorescent pacifiers and music that can be heard all the way from Neptune. Well, kids, I've had FOMO … A single dose of truth may cure your FOMO symptoms entirely. If it doesn't …
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Is sexual addiction the real deal?
But, said Prause and her colleagues, such symptoms are not necessarily representative of an addiction — in fact, non-pathological, high sexual desire could also explain this cluster of problems. One way to tease out the difference is to measure the …
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