The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
what they found is that people who were told that they ingested a high concentration or a medium concentration of nicotine performed better on a cognitive task that we know is dependent on or can be modified by the amount of acetylcholine transmission in a certain area of the brain then did individuals who were told that they ingested a small concentration of nicotine
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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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and the performance on the task Believe It or Not scales with it someone so keep in mind everyone got the exact same amount of nicotine in reality
so here the belief effect isn't just changing what one subjectively experiences oh this is the effect of high nicotine or low nicotine it actually is changing the way that the brain responds to the belief and that to me is absolutely wild