MyNDTALK - Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal - Erik Vance

MyNDTALK - Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal - Erik Vance

Expectations, beliefs, and self-deception can change our bodies and minds. Erik Vance builds a case for our "internal pharmacy"—the chemical reactions our brains produce when we think we are experiencing pain or healing, actual or perceived. Supporting this idea is centuries of placebo research in a range of forms, from sugar pills to shock waves; studies of alternative medicine techniques heralded and condemned in different parts of the world; and most recently, major advances in brain mapping technology.