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Placebo Effect Is in the Spine as Well as the Mind

It's not all in the mind — the so-called placebo effect is real and reaches right down to the spine, German scientists said on Thursday.The finding may help in the hunt for better ways to tackle pain and other disorders.Using modern imaging technology the researchers found that simply believing a pain treatment is effective actually dampens pain signalling in a region of the spinal cord called the dorsal horn, suggesting a powerful biological mechanism is at work."It is deeply rooted in very, very early areas of the central nervous system. That definitely speaks for a strong effect," lead researcher Falk Eippert of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf told Reuters.Eippert and colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to study changes in spinal cord activity.They applied painful heat to the arms of 15 healthy men and compared the spinal cord responses when they thought they had been treated with either an anaesthetic cream or a placebo.Both creams, in fa...

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