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Placebo, nocebo, and neuropathic pain [PDF]

open access: yesPain, 2016
Over the last decade, the apparent increase in placebo responses in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of neuropathic pain have complicated and potentially limited development and availability of new effective pain medication. Placebo analgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia effects are well described in nociceptive and idiopathic pain conditions, but less ...
Vase, Lene; Skyt, Ina; Hall, Kathryn T.
openaire   +3 more sources

Relieving pain using dose-extending placebos [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Placebos are often used by clinicians, usually deceptively and with little rationale or evidence of benefit, making their use ethically problematic. In contrast with their typical current use, a provocative line of research suggests that placebos can be ...
Colloca, Luana   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Patterns of Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitor (TNFi) Biosimilar Use Across United States Rheumatology Practices. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
ObjectiveIt is unclear if biosimilars of biologics for inflammatory arthritis are realizing their promise to increase competition and improve accessibility.
Bansback, Nick   +8 more
core   +1 more source

No Evidence for Seasonal Variations in Fatigue, Sleepiness and Insomnia Symptoms: Spring Fatigue Is a Cultural Phenomenon Rather Than a Seasonal Syndrome

open access: yesJournal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although not as prominent as in other animals, humans also experience seasonal variations in sleep duration and circadian processes. These variations are likely primarily driven by changes in photoperiod length. Anecdotally, many people report experiencing fatigue and low energy levels, particularly during spring in Germany, Switzerland and ...
Christine Blume, Albrecht Vorster
wiley   +1 more source

Placebo and Nocebo Effects Across Symptoms: From Pain to Fatigue, Dyspnea, Nausea, and Itch

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2019
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
doaj   +1 more source

A comparison of placebo and nocebo effects on objective and subjective postural stability: a double-edged sword?

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022
Background: Positive expectations (i.e., placebo effect) can improve postural control during quiet standing. This raises an important question: if postural control is susceptible to positive expectations, is it possible to elicit the opposite, a decline ...
Katherine Russell   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Positive messages may reduce patient pain: A meta-analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Introduction Current treatments for pain have limited benefits and worrying side effects. Some studies suggest that pain is reduced when clinicians deliver positive messages.
Howick, Jeremy, Mebius, Alexander
core  

Placebo effects in health and disease : how expectations shape treatment outcomes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The context in which a medical treatment is administrated influences treatment outcomes. As of today, the health care system has little knowledge about the non-specific components that contribute to the positive effect of a given therapy, often referred ...
Rosén, Annelie
core   +1 more source

Peripheral Inflammation and Sleep Loss Induce Coordinated Motivational Changes: An Experimental Two‐Hit Stress Model

open access: yesJournal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sleep loss and low‐grade inflammation are common stressors that affect behaviour and recovery needs. To examine their separate and combined effects on motivation for everyday behaviours, we developed a two‐hit experimental model. Participants (N = 56, 31 women) completed three experimental visits: sleep saturation (two nights, 9 h in bed/night)
John Axelsson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Psychological distress, perceived stress and nocebo effect (multifood adverse reaction) in irritable bowel syndrome patients

open access: yesJournal of Education and Health Promotion, 2023
BACKGROUND: Psychological distress and perceived stress may complicate the clinical presentation, course, and treatment of patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders.
Hamid Nasiri-Dehsorkhi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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