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Placebos may have benefits, even when people know they are taking them

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Now, a new study finds that even when researchers tell people that what they will receive contains no active ingredients, a placebo can produce a positive neurobiological effect.The study, from researchers at Michigan State University, University of Michigan, and Dartmouth College, is published in Nature Communications.In clinical trials, researchers do not typically inform control-group participants they have been given placebos that contain no active ingredients.

Such “deceptive” placebos sometimes appear to produce benefits, which suggests they may have value on their own as a safe, inexpensive means of helping patients.

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