completely took over his life. then he was given the chance to take part in a study he was told that research was being done on your feedback a special kind of pain management therapy for him it was a real medical treatment that gave him hope. really concentrated on looking at the circle to see if i could somehow influence this through certain breathing techniques or visual focus techniques really deeply into it as he. didn t realise was that the experimenters were just pretending that he was controlling his brain activity in actual fact his brain was not linked up with the computer at all. the video was being played on the monitor it was a placebo a fake therapy. and i had the feeling a hundred fifty percent that i was influencing the image through my movement my
monitor it was a placebo a fake therapy. and i had the feeling a hundred fifty percent that i was influencing the image through my movement my breathing technique my gaze. and the treatment worked later the ruse was revealed to him. a successful example of the placebo effect which may play a role in all medical therapies the power of expectation has been especially well researched in the area of pain management. placebos activate the same neurotransmitters in the brain to release by real pain medications that means the placebo effect is real. it s likely that expectation plays a crucial role and that was also a decisive factor in our experiment that is as we ve built up the expectation that this form of treatment would work and this disease of the hundreds from vote vote