Risk factors associated with nocebo effects: A review of reviews [PDF]
Objective: This meta-review aims to identify and categorize the risk factors that are associated with nocebo effects. The nocebo effect can exert a negative impact on treatment outcomes and have detrimental outcomes on health.
Francesca Grosso+4 more
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Differential Classical Conditioning of the Nocebo Effect: Increasing Heat-Pain Perception without Verbal Suggestions [PDF]
Background: Nocebo effects, including nocebo hyperalgesia, are a common phenomenon in clinical routine with manifold negative consequences. Both explicit expectations and learning by conditioning are known to induce nocebo effects, but the specific role ...
Anne-Kathrin Bräscher+7 more
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Mitigating the Nocebo Effect in Biosimilar Use and Switching: A Systematic Review. [PDF]
Background In the context of biosimilar use and switching, a patient’s negative perception of a biosimilar might trigger a nocebo effect, where negative expectations unrelated to its pharmacologic action may lead to worsened symptoms, resulting in less ...
Car E+6 more
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Does electromagnetic hypersensitivity originate from nocebo responses?: Indications from a qualitative study [PDF]
International audienceIdiopathic Environmental Intolerance attributed to Electromagnetic Fields (IEI-EMF) is a condition in which symptoms are attributed to electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure. As electro-hypersensitive (EHS) people have repeatedly been
Dieudonné, Maël
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A Direct Comparison of Placebo and Nocebo Effects on Visuospatial Attention: An Eye-Tracking Experiment [PDF]
Background: Placebo and nocebo effects on visual attention are still poorly understood. This eye-tracking study directly compared effects of sham transcranial magnetic stimulation (sTMS) that was administered along with the verbal suggestion that the ...
Carina Höfler+2 more
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Trait responsiveness to verbal suggestions predicts nocebo responding: A meta-analysis. [PDF]
Nocebo responding involves the experience of adverse health outcomes in response to contextual cues. These deleterious responses impact numerous features of mental and physical health but are characterized by pronounced heterogeneity.
Stein MV+4 more
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Identifying the psychological effects of nocebo education: results from two pre-registered experiments. [PDF]
Providing treatment side effect information to patients increases the risk of harm due to the nocebo effect. Nocebo education, in which patients learn about nocebo effects, is a novel strategy that can be used across a variety of situations and ...
Görner KJ, Spotts EK, Geers AL.
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Placebo and Nocebo Effects on Sports and Exercise Performance: A Systematic Literature Review Update. [PDF]
Sports performance could be affected by placebo and nocebo effects. The last literature review on placebo and nocebo effects on sports and exercise performance was published in 2019. In the past five years, several new studies have been published.
Chhabra B, Szabo A.
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Placebo and Nocebo Effects Across Symptoms: From Pain to Fatigue, Dyspnea, Nausea, and Itch [PDF]
Placebo and nocebo effects are, respectively, the helpful and harmful treatment effects that do not arise from active treatment components. These effects have thus far been researched most often in pain.
Fabian Wolters+6 more
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To investigate learning processes underlying nocebo effects on itch, this study measured the efficacy of classical conditioning and observational learning for inducing nocebo effects on cowhage-evoked itch and scratching behaviour.
Joseph S. Blythe+6 more
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