If you were to hazard a guess at the date of the first neurosurgery, what would you say? An image from [1] showing evidence of brain surgery in a Stone Age skull I’m going to bet that “the Stone Age” didn’t occur to you as a legitimate answer, but a skeleton dated to roughly 5000 B.C. […]
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From Gold Thongs to Opioid Receptors: The Placebo Effect
posted by Catie Profaci
All things considered, maybe it’s not so preposterous that our perceptions of pain or other ills can change if our brain expects them to.

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