{"id":97249,"date":"2026-04-25T10:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/study-shows-placebo-pain-relief-linked-to-specific-brain-circuits-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:28:39","slug":"study-shows-placebo-pain-relief-linked-to-specific-brain-circuits-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/study-shows-placebo-pain-relief-linked-to-specific-brain-circuits-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Study shows placebo pain relief linked to specific brain circuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"content\">\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" end=\"true\" class=\"sc-11rlt5o-4 gGtfNP\">\n<p>The placebo effect has long been dismissed as purely psychological, considering it a mental trick with no real biological basis. But what if your brain actually had built-in hardware to reduce pain based on your pain? <em>expect<\/em> To feel? <span data-citation-wrapper=\"\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/neuron\/fulltext\/S0896-6273%2826%2900216-3\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/neuron\/fulltext\/S0896-6273%2826%2900216-3\" data-citation-link=\"\">new research<\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#citations\" data-citation-number=\"1\">1<default:svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"11\" height=\"10\" viewbox=\"0 0 11 10\"><default:path d=\"M10.5616 1.47255C10.7935 1.16327 10.7308 0.724508 10.4216 0.492549C10.1123 0.26059 9.67352 0.323271 9.44156 0.63255L4.41852 7.32996L2.03106 4.54448C1.77947 4.25094 1.33756 4.21694 1.04403 4.46853C0.750497 4.72012 0.716495 5.16203 0.968084 5.45556L3.77335 8.72851C3.81859 8.84955 3.89785 8.9595 4.0089 9.04279C4.09758 9.1093 4.19691 9.15159 4.29895 9.17078C4.51931 9.23643 4.76744 9.19227 4.955 9.03151C5.07764 8.92639 5.15498 8.78804 5.18511 8.64118L10.5616 1.47255Z\"\/><\/default:svg><\/a><\/span>    Turns out that&#8217;s exactly the case, and scientists have now mapped the neural circuit that does just that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The placebo effect has long been dismissed as purely psychological, considering it a mental trick with no real biological basis. But what if your brain actually had built-in hardware to reduce pain based on your pain? expect To feel? new research1 Turns out that&#8217;s exactly the case, and scientists have now mapped the neural circuit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[964,25466,2926,2096,25465,4604,1442,6534,1005],"class_list":{"0":"post-97249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scriptures","8":"tag-brain","9":"tag-circuits","10":"tag-linked","11":"tag-pain","12":"tag-placebo","13":"tag-relief","14":"tag-shows","15":"tag-specific","16":"tag-study"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97281,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97249\/revisions\/97281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}