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| Posted By: Jeremy Posted On: Oct 19, 2009 Views: 1218 | Placebos and the Placebo Effect I'm not supporting tk but after doing some research on the placebo effect I am very interested in the human brain. I was just wondering about your opinions of placebos and the idea that we are taking our brains for granted. |
| Posted By: Keith Mayes Posted On: Oct 20, 2009 Views: 1214 | RE: Placebos and the Placebo Effect It is a well documented fact that placebos can help some medical conditions. They don´t cure cancer but can fix a headache or other small pain. We also know that people who have a positive attitude to getting better leave hospital before the pessimists. Yes, the mind can and does have an effect on the body, no doubt about it, and with a little practice we can all learn to lower our pulse rate and blood pressure just by thinking about it. While this does require further investigation, it does make sense, we know for example that panic or excitement affects our bodies, it´s how we have evolved to survive. However, while interesting, it has no bearing whatsoever on the ability to control objects outside our bodies. |
| Posted By: Gregório Posted On: Jan 14, 2012 Views: 898 | RE: Placebos and the Placebo Effect Just wondering: I heard some facts about persons what amputates an arm, for example, and they keep the feeling of the arm like if never loose it. Ok, the arm is a part of their body... and like his part, the brain connected can move it. So with the amputated member close to the area of the arm, in this example, a person can move it or comunicate the member with pulses? |
| Posted By: Keith Mayes Posted On: Jan 15, 2012 Views: 894 | RE: Placebos and the Placebo Effect It is a well known fact that amputees sometimes get a "ghost" sensation of a missing limb, as though it were still there, I believe it is something to do with the nerves and how the brain interprets certain sensations,if my memory is correct. That said, it is not possible to control a limb once it has been amputated, not even give it a little twitch, it's just not possible. |