The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
the placebo drugs given in many of those studies which were simply a sugar pill or some other inert pill it doesn't contain any chemicals that are known to directly bind to or increase dopamine in the brain and yet nonetheless when the brains of certain patients were imaged it was clear that Not only was there an improvement in symptomology but there were increases in dopamine release within those patients brains
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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one of the most interesting examples of placebo effect is where Placebo is given and can profoundly change levels of dopamine release in the brain