Are a Popular Doping Drug s Effects All in the Mind? [News]

Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 04:28 in Psychology & Sociology

Editors’ note: This story will appear in the October/November 2008 issue of Scientific American Mind.Many athletes credit drugs with improving their performance, but some of them may want to thank their brain instead. Mounting evidence suggests that the boost from human growth hormone (HGH), an increasingly popular doping drug, might be caused by the placebo effect. [More]

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