Maryam
Can you interpret these sentences. Benedetti induced pain in human volunteers by inflating a blood pressure cuff on the forearm. He did this several times a day for several days, using morphine each time to control the pain. On the final day, without saying anything, he replaced the morphine with a saline solution. This still relieved the subjects' pain: a placebo effect. But when he added naloxone to the saline, the pain relief disappeared, Here was direct proof that placebo analgesia is mediated, at least in part, by these natural opiates. Still, no one knows how belief triggers endorphin release, or why most people can't achieve placebo pain relief simply by willing it. Would you explain this paragraph after the two sentences what is the main idea would you simply make it clear for me to get the idea .thanks a lot for your time
Nov 26, 2015 5:53 PM
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That made people feel pain. They made the pain feel better with a pain-killing drug (morphine). After giving them medicine for the pain a few times, they took the drugs away, but made them think they were getting drugs. Just believing that they were getting drugs made them feel better. They then gave them a different drug- one that stops all pain killers from working. Then the people felt pain again. The point is, the human body can make its own pain killers. It can release these pain killers when it believes it is getting medicine (this is called the placebo effect). This experiment proves that the body makes these pain killers, and it can release them sometimes, but not just anytime we want it to. Does that help?
November 26, 2015
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