Symposium Reinvented

The Placebo Effect: Fact or Fiction?

The Placebo Effect has divided opinion for many years. Is it a psychological trick and why does it work?

Placebos are often considered “fake” treatments. They can be in the form of pills, injections, or even entire procedures. There is a difference between the term placebo and the placebo effect: the term placebo refers to the inactive substance itself, while the term placebo effect refers to any effects A number of things can influence of taking a placebo medicine that how much a placebo will work. cannot be attributed to the Researchers have found that the treatment itself. more a person believes the placebo is real, the more likely they are to The Placebo Effect is an effect experience the placebo effect. This your body feels after medicine or is also the same the opposite way a cure that looks and seems real round: the more sceptical a person but doesn’t actually have any medicinal qualities. For example, a is that a placebo pill will work, the less effect it will have on them. This person suffering with insomnia means the placebo appears to be a may be given a sugar pill, that psychological deception. they’ve been told is a pill to help relieve them of their insomnia.

Because they think this placebo pill will work, they will experience the ‘benefits’ of the pill and their insomnia will be cured, even though the pill is fake and not at all curative.