Placebo???

River · #1 (**permalink**) 10-13-2007, 01:16 PM

Hi everyone! I found quite often on the boards the “placebo effect”…what exactly is?

Bonn · #2 (**permalink**) 10-15-2007, 08:00 PM

When you take something and in your head you believe it is working....

Boris · #3 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 08:21 AM

.."If you give person A. tylenol, and person B, vitamin E for their headaches... person B could have the placebo effect and beleive his head ache went away because he though he took tylenol....when in fact it was vit E"

Comceh · #4 (**permalink**) 10-26-2007, 09:41 PM

Is psychological…..you make your brain to change the “effect”

Deepsea · #5 (**permalink**) 11-25-2007, 04:09 PM

http://skepdic.com/placebo.html
Read this it will tell you all about it.