NEUR 3403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nocebo, Homeopathy, Wart

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Neuroscience
• Course: NEUR 3403
• Professor: Hymie Anisman

Document Summary

Midterm: 30mc and 4 short answer (half page) answers. Does not work-even as well as placebo except in germany. Except in germany: powerful cultural belief, powerful placebo effect. Homeopathy: alternative medicine; a claim that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people would cure similar symptoms in sick people. Vaccines: dead/inactive virus, immune system makes defense against it. Then when exposed to the virus, the immune system can eliminate it. Nocebo effect: if you believe something will not work, it will not.