Psychoactive drugs have long been hailed as miracle cures. But you can only understand the paths they blaze through the mind if you’ve traveled them.
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Psychoactive drugs have long been hailed as miracle cures. But you can only understand the paths they blaze through the mind if you’ve traveled them.
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One question for José Arroyo-Barrigüete, an economist at Comillas Pontifical University in Spain.
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One question for Nils Köbis, a social psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.
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One question for Michèle Belot, an economist at Cornell University.
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Even when we know they’re “fake,” placebos can tame our emotional distress.
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Play and art engage all of our senses and enhance attention.
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A positive spin on our past can help inure us against pain.
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