The placebo effect

enrike45

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The experts call it "placebo effect" to the phenomenon by which an inert substance (say, a sugar pill) seems to have healing properties when administered like a drug. Pero no tiene por qué ser una píldora, puede ser también una inyección de suero salino o una cirugía en la que no se extirpa nada. But this is not a pill, can also be an injection of saline or a surgery that is not removed anything.

A few weeks ago, the Journal of Neuroscience published a scientific study that links the activity of a gene, the TPH2, with a greater likelihood that this is the placebo effect in the treatment of psychological dysfunction known as "social phobia", which identifies uncontrollable panic felt by some people to speak in public.

Versión traducida de http://enrike45.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/el-efecto-placebo/
 
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