IACSIACSInt'l Academy for Consciousness Studies
School of Behavioral Health · A course at IACS

The Placebo/Nocebo Dilemma

Real healing power, and a real ethical edge

Ted Kaptchuk's open-label placebo trials found the effect can hold even when patients are told, honestly, that it is a placebo. Fabrizio Benedetti mapped the real neurobiology underneath, endogenous opioids, dopamine, specific circuits. This course covers the actual science of expectation, and the line between self-care and harm it draws.

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