
Placebo effects explained
Placebo = a substance that does not contain any active medicine or molecule. But sometimes it makes us feel better anyhow! Medical research has recently been considering the issue of placebo with an increasing interest. In the past few years several research experiments have been undertaken - and are still happening - in many hospitals and university laboratories around the world in order to understand if and how placebo works. Placebo is normally used as a means to control t