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Placebo Effect's Sweet Spot

For the first time, researchers say they have identified the ''sweet spot'' in the brain responsible for the ''placebo effect'' in pain relief.1 If the discovery bears out in further research, it could help improve the accuracy of clinical trials, scientists say. It could also personalize pain relief treatment by predicting the responses of individual patients based on brain imaging.

Where Is the Sweet Spot?

"The area is in the frontal part of the brain, the midfrontal gyrus, the region known to be involved in emotional regulation and decision making," says study coauthor Marwan Baliki, PhD, a research scientist at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and…

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