CU Psychology and Neuroscience professor聽Tor Wager (Cognitive) was in the popular press for a recent publication regarding the placebo effect and Parkinson's disease. This research, done in collaboration with colleagues at Columbia University, demonstrated that Parkinson's patients who believed they were getting medication to alleviate their symptoms performed as well on a reward learning task as patients who had received actual medication. Read the CU-麻豆影院 . Or read the original published in Nature Neuroscience.