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When wounds replace words
| Jules MontagueSteven Pocock
For the many thousands of refugees waiting in Greece, the process to establish the truth of their tragic personal histories is often extremely upsetting. But a group of medics and legal workers is working together to make the system more humane.
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Rethinking the placebo effect
| Anjuli SharmaSteven Pocock
The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.
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Electrical epilepsy and the EEG Test
| Aparna NairTracy Satchwill
The EEG (electroencephalograph) literally electrified the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. But for Aparna Nair the dreaded EEG tests of her adolescence were a painful ordeal.
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The smile catchers
| Esther Leslie
From facial recognition to emojis in apps, find out how the monitoring of emotions is used to get more out of workers.