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How The Placebo Effect Proves That God Exists

Richard Schiffman | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Miracles, Religion, Bible, Health, Theology, Meditation, Prayer, Atheists, God, Placebo, Koran, Mysticism, Religion News

We can't find God, because, paradoxically, we are already the God that we are seeking.

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How Do Placebos Relieve Pain?

Wray Herbert | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Executive Function, Distraction, Placebo, Cognitive Neuroscience, Expectation, Cognitive Therapy, Placebo Drugs, Placebo Effect, Placebo Pain Relief, Science News

Scientists and doctors have been studying placebos for more than half a century. These inert "sugar pills" remain highly controversial, yet they are widely used in clinical treatment today -- especially in the area of pain management.

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The Purpose of Prayer in a Modern World

Jeffrey Small | Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Meditation, Theodicy, God, Suffering, Placebo, Meditation Practice, Prayer, Christianity, Contemplation, Does Prayer Work, Religion News

Do problems with seeing prayer as divine intervention mean that prayer is a pointless exercise? Not at all. Maybe we just need to rethink the purpose of prayer in a modern world.

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Pain? What Pain?

Sam Sommers | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Rain, Pain, Jogging, Placebo, Cycling, Placebo Effect, Exercise, Sports, Sports Illustrated, Athletes, Amputations, Situations Matter, Context, Running, Sports News

The idea that there's a mental component to pain is hardly an unfamiliar one. But the more you learn about it, the full extent to which our experience with pain depends on situations is surprising.

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A Depressing Story You Need to Read

Robert Kuttner | Posted 08.26.2011

Read More: Food and Drug Administration, New York Review of Books, Drug Prices, Drug Industry, Affordable Care Act, Marcia Angell, Healthcare Reform, Placebo, Politics News

Corrosion of the public spirit of scientists and the distortion of scientific inquiry is one of the many costs of pervasive commercialization. And what's truly depressing is that the Obama FDA is only marginally better on this front than George W. Bush's.

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How The Mind Makes Drugs Work Better

David R. Hamilton, Ph.D. | Posted 07.29.2011

Read More: The Placebo Effect, Mind Medicine, Tell Me Why, Placebo Drugs, Placebo Effect Drugs, Explained, Placebo, Placebo Effect, Home News

Reams of research now paint a picture that what we believe with regards to medication can have measurable effects on the body.

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The Placebo Effect and How to Use It

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Since most of us are not in the healing business, the opportunity to test this paradox doesn't often pop up. So when Jerry Weintraub show us an effective use of a placebo in relationships -- it's worth noting.

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How To Stimulate Your Placebo Response

Dr. Frank Lipman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Personal Health, Antibiotics, Modern Medicine, Integrative Medicine, Natural Medicine, Doctors, Patients, Placebo, Functional Medicine, Placebo Effect, Alternative Medicine, Healthy Living News

After finishing my Internship at Baragwaneth Hospital in South Africa almost 30 years ago, I went to apprentice in a busy General Practice in Johannes...

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Understanding the Placebo Effect

Eliezer Sobel | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Klonopin, Conditioning, Big Pharmaceutical Companies, Abilify, Paradox, Marijuana, Paxil, Irving Kirsch, Prozac, Ambien, Adderall, Placebo, Effexor, Withdrawal, Xanax, Zoloft, Seroquel, Expectations, Side Effects, Insomnia, Nocebo, Wellbutrin, Neurontin, The Meaning Response, Valium, Dr. David Newman, Serzone, Trazadone, Buspar, Sinequan, Lamictal, Antidepressants, Health, Healthy Living News

My first foray into the nebulous world of antidepressants was in 1985 when I was put on Sinequan. It gave me severe cotton mouth, didn't do much for my mood.

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Which Illegal Hallucinogen Is Right for You?

Mark Morford | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Lsd, Big Pharma, Zoloft, Antidepressants, Magic Mushrooms, Ecstasy, Psilocybin, Prozac, Mdma, Placebo, Healthy Living News

Let's lay it out: According to a major new overview study, all of America's beloved wonderdrug antidepressants are essentially useless and don't really work worth a damn. Wait, that's not quite right.

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Refocusing the Mind's Eye: What Does 20/20 Vision Really Mean?

Wray Herbert | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Vision, Association for Psychological Science, Psychological Science, Harvard University, Mindfulness, Snellen Eyechart, Visual Acuity, Perception, Placebo, Ellen Langer, Mind-Set, The Inner Life, Positive Psychology, Healthy Living News

New research is beginning to focus on the psychological dimensions of vision--with some surprising results.

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How to Be Your Own Placebo

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Health, Deepak Chopra, Science, Medicine, Placebo, Wellness, Spirituality, Healthy Living News

But those who recovered against all odds did have one thing in common. At a certain point people who are inexplicably cured know that they are going to recover. Their doubts and fears lift.

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The Placebo Effect: It Works Because You Say So

Lee Schneider | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Boots Pharmacy, UK, Homeopathic Remedies, Boing Boing, Placebo Myth, Henry Beecher, Medicine, Homeopathy, Placebo, 10:23, Alternative Medicine, Health, Healthy Living News

If you believe in homeopathy, this information is unbearably exciting. If you don't, it sounds like superstition and "magik" from 1796, which is when homeopathy was invented.

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The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thomas Szasz, Dopamine, Walden Two, Dsm, Drug Companies, Richard P. Bentall, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Prozac, Psychosis, Fda, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Schizophrenia, Madness, American Psychiatric Association, Ssris, B. F. Skinner, Neurotransmitters, Evidence-Based Medicine, Treatment of Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Depression, Chlorpromazine, Drug Company Profits, Randomized Controlled Trials, Mental Asylums, Big Pharma, Ect, Placebo, Rose Kennedy, Insulin Coma Therapy, Antipsychiatry, Mental Illness, Pharmaceutical Industry, R. D. Laing, Brain Chemistry, Carl Rogers, Prefrontal Leucotomy, Psychiatric Drugs, Genetics, Psychiatric Practice, Walter Freeman, Emil Kraepelin, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Book Reviews, Books, Books News

Dr. Richard P. Bentall, professor and practitioner of clinical psychology in Britain, exposes the highly dubious nature of reigning presumptions about the causes and treatment of mental illness.

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Fake It Till You Make It: Placebos Are Getting More Effective

wired.com | STEVE SILBERMAN | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Industry, Merck, Placebos, Pharmaceutical Drugs, Placebo, Placebo Effect, Anti-Depressants, Healthy Living News

Merck was in trouble. In 2002, the pharmaceutical giant was falling behind its rivals in sales. Even worse, patents on five blockbuster drugs were abo...

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Journalists Present Acupuncture Placebo As Cure

Jacob Dickerman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Acupuncture, James Randi, Science, New Study, Science-Journalism, Placebo, Medicine, Placebo-Effect, Journalism, Healthy Living News

A flat Earth is not an equal proposition to a round one, and when a study shows that a placebo works as well as a medicine, it means that the medicine itself is probably a placebo.

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American Doctors Regularly Issue Placebos, Survey Says

AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Doctors, Personal Health, Medicine, Placebo, Healthy Living News

LONDON — About half of American doctors in a new survey say they regularly give patients placebo treatments _ usually drugs or vitamins that won...

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