The Science of Using Your Expectations to Relieve Pain (4/11/18)
Description
Traditional healing is used around the world—from acupuncture, to laying on of hands, to yoga. How do these alternative remedies work to heal the body and the brain? As part of our series ScienceScope and in cooperation with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the NewsHour’s Nsikan Akpan ventures to Oaxaca, Mexico, to dive into the neuroscience of expectation.
Runtime
4 min 50 sec
Subjects
- Pain clinics (32)
- Palliative treatment (78)
- Health (2879)
- Pain (164)
- Chronic pain (54)
- Medical care (561)
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