Psychiatrists, Instead of Being Embarrassed by Placebo Effect, Should Embrace It, Author Says By John Horgan | March 12, 2013 Scientific American: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2013/03/12/psychiatrists-instead-of-being-embarrassed-by-placebo-effect-should-embrace-it-author-says/ Walter Brown, a professor of psychiatry at Brown and Tufts, first caught my attention in the mid-1990s when I was researching my December 1996 Scientific Americanarticle “Why Freud Isn’t Dead,” on lack of progress […]
Expectations, Intent and Sham Surgery By Christopher Kent, DC, Esq. From: http://www.dynamicchiropractic.com/mpacms/dc/article.php?id=56675 Seasoned clinicians recognize the importance of expectation, intent and touch in the healing process.1 As reported in the popular press, “Placebo treatments or no treatment appeared to work just as well as drugs in a large percentage of headache patients participating in more than 100 studies.”2-3 Detractors of […]
12/12/12 Is there scientific proof we can heal ourselves? Lissa Rankin, MD at TEDxAmericanRiviera Published on Dec 18, 2012 About Lissa Rankin, MD: New age gurus suggest that we can heal ourselves by simply changing our minds, but is this concept grounded in cold, hard science? Lissa Rankin, MD explores the scientific literature, reviewing case […]