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Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal | Erik Vance
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This riveting narrative explores the world of placebos, hypnosis, false memories, and neurology to reveal the groundbreaking science of our suggestible minds. Could the secrets to personal health lie within our own brains? Journalist Erik Vance explores the surprising ways our expectations and beliefs influence our bodily responses to pain, disease, and everyday events. Drawing on centuries of research and interviews with leading experts in the field, Vance takes us on a fascinating adventure from Harvards research labs to a witch doctors office in Catemaco, Mexico, to an alternative medicine school near Beijing (often called Chinas Hogwarts). Vances firsthand dispatches will change the way you thinkand feel. Expectations, beliefs, and self-deception can actively change our bodies and minds. Vance builds a case for our internal pharmacythe very real chemical reactions our brains produce when we think we are experiencing pain or healing, actual or perceived. Supporting this idea is centuries of placebo research in a range of forms, from sugar pills to shock waves; studies of alternative medicine techniques heralded and condemned in different parts of the world (think crystals and chakras); and most recently, major advances in brain mapping technology. Thanks to this technology, we're learning how we might leverage our suggestibility (or lack thereof) for personalized medicine, and Vance brings us to the front lines of such study.
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Okay Littens I need your help! I am one book away from completing my #Litsyatoz challenge. I chose to do all #audiobooks and by title. Can you guess which letter I'm left with??? Yup! X!!! I need a good #audiobook starting with X! 😫🙄😖

keys_on_fire By Sue Grafton. Thriller series... (edited) 6y
britt_brooke This Malcom X novel might be good: (edited) 6y
keys_on_fire The Sue Grafton novel is part of an alphabet series. You could have done the whole challenge with just her books 😂😂 6y
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Lmstraubie @keys_on_fire Good point! 🤣 6y
Lmstraubie @britt_brooke Thanks! And I love YA 🙂 6y
britt_brooke @Lmstraubie 👍🏻👍🏻 I haven‘t read it but it sounds intriguing. #stacked 6y
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