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Anyone who is not a sociopath or aromatic has likely felt the grieving wound of a broken heart. This near-universal human experience is a gruelling part of life but new research shows that the pain of a broken heart can be relieved using the placebo effect.

The placebo effect is a beneficial effect, produced by a placebo drug or treatment, that cannot be attributed to the properties of the placebo itself, and must therefore be due to the patient's belief in that treatment.

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