Placebo Pain Relief Isn't "All In Your Head" — It's Linked To Brain Circuit
Mind Body Green | 25.04.2026 16:37
The placebo effect has long been dismissed as purely psychological, regarded as a mental trick with no real biological basis. But what if your brain actually has built-in hardware designed to reduce pain based on what you expect to feel? New research1 suggests that's exactly the case, and scientists have now mapped the neural circuit that makes it happen.
