Mapping the brain using the placebo effect

Researchers have tricked participants with placebo pain relief in an effort to map the brainstem. 

Also, how immunotherapy might be used to treat mental health conditions in some young people. 

And delays in diagnosing frontotemporal dementia means some people are missing out on important care. 

References

• Answering common questions about GLP-1s for weight loss
• GLP-1s and eating disorders — what are the risks?
• A Case Series of Young People Receiving Adjunctive Immunotherapy for Neuroimmune-Mediated Major Mood or Psychotic Syndromes
• Fourteen years later: Reviewing the diagnostic criteria for behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia
• Somatotopic organization of brainstem analgesic circuitry
• A radical new way to treat low back pain - ABC listen

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