Placebo Effects: Understanding the Other Side of Medical Care

This book by Fabrizio Benedetti was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Andrew Huberman. The people who vouched for it on air: Andrew Huberman. It comes up in conversations about brain health, focus & dopamine, hormones. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

"The placebo effect is one of the most widely used and familiar terms within science and medicine, yet it is not always clear just what we mean by a placebo effect. Though we might describe a placebo effect as being 'all in the mind', we now know that there is a genuine neurobiological basis to this phenomenon." "In recent years our knowledge of the neural bases of the placebo effect has developed markedly, and we now have a far better understanding of how it can influence both the course of a disease and the response to therapy.

• “It's called none other than Placebo effects understanding the other side of medical care and the book is by fabrio Benedetti”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “it's an absolutely wonderful book ... I absolutely love the book so highly recommend this book”
  Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Mar 202400:14:33

  Said during "How Placebo Effects Work to Change Our Biology & Psychology". The episode features Andrew Huberman: Professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine and host of the Huberman Lab podcast. This is a solo episode. Andrew Huberman explains how placebo, nocebo, and belief effects produce real biological changes via prefrontal cortex circuitry.