Author: Jua Seok
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It’s All in Your Head: Can Your Brain Trick Your Body Into Healing?
Imagine taking a pill with absolutely no active medication, yet somehow feeling better afterward. Sounds impossible, right? Surprisingly, this phenomenon is known as the placebo effect, where an individual’s symptoms may improve due to expectations and the context surrounding a treatment rather than its active ingredients (Wager and Atlas 2015). But can simply believing that…