Brain Science

Placebo, Memory, and Neurological Insights

By: Sally Stephens

Narrated by: Clare Radix

Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

The placebo effect, what is it and does it truly work? What are its health advantages, its medical benefits? What about weight loss and wrinkle creams? Is it your brain, or the supplement working? Is this a victory of your brain, or is this a win for medicine? Does the Placebo effect associate itself with hypnosis? How does it fit in with subconscious thinking?

This book will teach you what multiple sclerosis is and how to comprehend its various subtypes and treatments. You will hear about the various signs of multiple sclerosis, its probable causes, and the requirements in order for you to be identified with Multiple Sclerosis. Learn what spasticity is and what triggers it. Hear about tips on how to stop regressions and cope with multiple sclerosis.

Learn about various memory strategies for different situations, whether it is for a subject you don’t like, college and professional success, strategies for kids , long-lasting, photographic memory, and even the famous Loci’s approach.

Hear about how to build your own persistence, while increasing focus and gaining self-discipline. Learn about anger management. Shed light on what to expect in the Marine Corp training if you decide to go into the armed forces.

©2019 Sally Stephens (P)2019 Sally Stephens

Excellent

I highly recommend this book for anyone looking to learn more about the human brain. This book highlights the placebo effect, something that few of us understand well. That's just a reason to listen to it, but there are others too. I would say, give it a try. It's a good deal when you have a credit too.

Good stuff

I enjoyed it so much that I may tune in to it again sometime. I gained from this book. It was really an eye-opener. I was intending to discover more about this idea anyway, so it was no coincidence that I came across this book. I listened to it, and certainly not to my surprise, it was precisely what I was searching for.

I vouch for this

This is definitely a good book. I recommend it and I think that things like the placebo effect, memory improvements, and other things are important enough to learn more about.

Horrible opening chapter

I'm one chapter in and I think I'm ready to throw in the towell. I was attracted to the book description which was exactly what I was looking for, thinking it would focus on the placebo effect. As a medical professional I was instantly disappointed by the painful combination of unnecessarily specific scientific terminology with vague terms presumably thought up to make understanding easier for the lay person. Some of these words may be in common usage in the states, for me in the UK however, I find this type of terminology only adds to confusion. Stick to simplified description or accurate terminology please not both.

The narrator has a robotic tone and pronounces many of the medical words so incorrectly it's painful. Perhaps if you are not familiar with the words you may not notice, but to me it's making the audiobook very uncomfortable to listen to.

The whole opening chapter is a dry summary of multiple sclerosis and doesn't mention the placebo effect once, instead providing repetitive lists of symptoms which include meaningless umbrella terms mashed in with specific and unusual symptoms with no differentiators.

The next few chapters (which I skipped) are also about multiple sclerosis and you have to get to chapter 9 before you hear anything about the placebo effect. 10 seconds in, the reader has given a pretty sure description of what the placebo effect is and the narrator has misread the book so that the sentence makes no grammatical sense.

I can't believe that any of the 5 star reviews on here are honest, and I'm still not convinced whether this is a real narrotor or just a realistic computerised speech.