Post #769 326 Oct 21, 2023, 08:24 UTC TLDR: Placebo effects are dose-dependent.We need structured belief engineering thenhttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.15.500226v2 bioRxiv A thalamic circuit represents dose-like responses induced by nicotine-related beliefs in human smokers Could non-pharmacological constructs, such as beliefs, impact brain activities in a dose-dependent manner as drugs do? While beliefs shape many aspects of our behavior and wellbeing, the precise mapping between subjective beliefs and neural substrates remains… 💊 1