The Placebo Response: Not in Your Head but in Your Brain
* A surgeon cuts the skin over your knee instead of performing arthroscopic surgery, but your knee pain still goes away.
* You swallow a dummy pill that contains nothing but starch, and yet your migraine vanishes as if you had taken an Imitrex.
* A saltwater injection eases your asthma the same amount that puffing on a bronchial inhaler does.
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