Lecture on the Placebo-Effect
About this event
- Category
- Educational
- Date and time
- Nov 24, 2020 12:45 - 14:00
Everyone has heard about the Placebo-effect: but what exactly is it and how does it affect our lives?
When you take a pill, your brain starts to anticipate. Based on certain expectations, it produces painkilling or soothing substances: the so-called placebo effect. That’s why your headache possibly vanishes after swallowing a fake pill.
Prof. dr. Andrea Evers (Health Care Psychology Leiden) investigates how physicians can use this placebo effect to cure their patients more efficiently. And now she will be giving a lecture about the Placebo-effect as a part of the Week of Inspiration.
You can find more info and the link to the Livestream on www.utwente.nl/weekofinspiration.