“New Leiden Placebo Knowledge Center Introduces Virtual Reality Glasses for Improved Patient Treatments”

2023-05-19 07:00:00

Learning to communicate with patients can influence their expectations about the effect of a treatment. Patients will experience a treatment as painful if a doctor warns them about it.© Photo Leiden University

Merel Brewer

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Virtual Reality glasses that can improve treatments: it sounds like future music, but the new Leiden placebo knowledge center makes it possible.