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Did you know science agreed there is a mind/body connection?
Here's one sample about this connection
An experiment was done by a team of medical researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles. They used a brain imaging technique called quantitative electroencephalography to monitor the brain activity of 51 patients suffering major depression. Over a nine-week period in 2001, these patients were given either a placebo pill or an antidepressant medication.
Nearly half of the patients given placebos reported improvements in their mood, a rate almost comparable in number to those given antidepressants who reported mood elevation. But the bigger surprise of scientists came when the brain scans revealed that placebos created a dramatic change in brain activity. “We now know that a placebo is very definitely, an active treatment condition,” declared Professor Andrew Leuchter, writing in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
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