The Placebo Effect

Toteuttaa (kliininen) tutkimus

To run a clinical trial

Annostella, antaa (lääkeannos)

To administer a dose

Vaimentaa

To dampen (the pain signal)

1. What is the writer's main point about the placebo effect? — Expectation can genuinely ease symptoms, although it has clear limits
2. Why do clinical trials give some volunteers a tablet with no medicine in it? — To separate the drug's real effect from the effect of expectation
3. In the second paragraph, "the dummy" refers to — the pill that contains no active ingredient