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Season 2018 · Episode 8

Landed Thu, 4 Oct 2018 · 16:00 your time · 1 episode · 1h 0m

Season 2018, Episode 8 of Horizon aired Thursday, 4 October 2018 at 9pm UK time on BBC iPlayer.

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S2018E08The Placebo Experiment: Can My Brain Cure My Body?60mCould the power of fake pills be used to treat some of our most common medical complaints? To find out, Dr Michael Mosley embarks on Britain's largest ever trial to investigate the placebo effect. He is heading to Blackpool to gather 117 people suffering from backache - one of the leading types of chronic pain - before trying to treat them with nothing but fake pills and the power of the mind.

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