Explore "nocebo effect" with insightful episodes like "What is Collective Hysteria?" and "How the Placebo Effect Works" from podcasts like ""Stuff You Should Know" and "Stuff You Should Know"" and more!
Throughout the history of the world, there have been many cases of what is known as collective hysteria - groups of people, usually young women, who all exhibit the same physical symptoms of non-existent conditions. Is it psychosomatic? Is it group think?
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For centuries, doctors have prescribed drugs they knew weren't real - but that still somehow worked. It wasn't until the 1980s that the placebo effect, the phenomenon where an inert substance can have a genuine impact on a patient's recovery, was studied.
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