How can we tell if a depression treatment works beyond placebo? A new real-world method measuring placebo shows that ...

For years, people from CEOs to novelists have taken tiny amounts of psychedelics to support well-being. New research shows that benefits for depression may be attributable to a placebo effect.

Thinking positive increased a specific brain region's activity and might have heightened immune response after a shot.

Placebos are commonly known as the inert drugs — think sugar pills — that researchers use to measure the effects of real drugs. But research shows they can actually improve certain health conditions. ...

Stanford University researchers found that depressed people given ketamine before undergoing anesthesia improved just as much as those given saline. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes New research ...

A new study of psychedelic microdosing found that many of the beneficial effects of the practice may be due to the placebo effect. The research was based on a "citizen science" approach, recruiting ...