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> The thing you really want to do, and every doctor should aim for, is to stack the placebo effect on top of a well-established treatment effect. Psychologist
by jt2190 4y ago
> The thing you really want to do, and every doctor should aim for, is to stack the placebo effect on top of a well-established treatment effect.
Psychologist Alia Crum does research into this area.
“Harnessing the Power of Placebos” by Alia Crum (Video, 2016) https://youtu.be/WcQnSW1wpGA https://youtu.be/WcQnSW1wpGA
- vonnik 4y agoShe's great! I totally should have mentioned her. Stanford magazine covered her work last year: https://stanfordmag.org/contents/better-believe-it https://stanfordmag.org/contents/better-believe-it I first encountered her work through Andrey Huberman's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFR_wFN23ZY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFR_wFN23ZY Harvard is researching this too: https://www.health.harvard.edu/mental-health/the-power-of-the-placebo-effect https://www.health.harvard.edu/mental-health/the-power-of-th...