New Study Finds Beliefs About Drugs Affect the Brain and Behavior

Insights from a new study demonstrate that our beliefs could play a powerful role in the treatment of mental health disorders, especially addiction.
New Study Finds Beliefs About Drugs Affect the Brain and Behavior
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Emma Suttie
Emma Suttie
D.Ac, AP
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People’s beliefs about medications can affect the potency of a substance and how their brains respond, according to the findings of a new study.

The study, conducted by researchers from Mount Sinai and published in Nature Mental Health, focused on the participants’ beliefs about nicotine, specifically about how much they believed they were being given.
Emma Suttie
Emma Suttie
D.Ac, AP
Emma is an acupuncture physician and has written extensively about health for multiple publications over the past decade. She is now a health reporter for The Epoch Times, covering Eastern medicine, nutrition, trauma, and lifestyle medicine.
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