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“Buprenorphine doesn't hold me”: Neurochemical afterlives of state violence and the struggle for meaning in addiction treatment

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyzes two disparate experiences of buprenorphine, a medication for opioid addiction, in California. Within the context of the U.S. War on Drugs and after decades of criminalization, buprenorphine represents a shift toward outpatient medical treatment of opioid addiction, but it has been unequally distributed and experienced ...
Lauren Textor
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Preventing adverse events of chemotherapy by educating patients about the nocebo effect (RENNO study) – study protocol of a randomized controlled trial with gastrointestinal cancer patients

BMC Cancer, 2018
Background Patients undergoing chemotherapy are highly burdened by side effects. These may be caused by the pharmacodynamics of the drug or be driven by psychological factors such as negative expectations or pre-conditioning, which reflect nocebo effects.
Julia Quidde, Yiqi Pan, Melanie Salm, Armin Hendi, Sven Nilsson, Karin Oechsle, Alexander Stein, Yvonne Nestoriuc   +7 more
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Placebo Analgesia, Nocebo Hyperalgesia, and the Cardiovascular System: A Qualitative Systematic Review

Frontiers in Physiology, 2020
Background: Placebo/nocebo effects involve the autonomic nervous system, including cardiac activity, but studies have reported inconsistent findings on how cardiac activity is modulated following a placebo/nocebo effect. However, no systematic review has
Hojjat Daniali, Magne Arve Flaten
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Resisting Contagious Hopelessness: Therapeutic Alliance and the Limits of Physician‐Assisted Death in Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa

Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Contemporary psychiatric ethics emphasize autonomy and shared decision‐making, yet these frameworks may be strained in severe mental illnesses characterized by cognitive rigidity, fluctuating decisional capacity, and undue clinician influence. Severe and enduring anorexia nervosa serves as a case example to explore how therapeutic alliance, clinician ...
Elizabeth M. Olson, Fabian M. Saleh, Angela S. Guarda   +2 more
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Negative expectations (nocebo phenomenon) in clinical interventions: A scoping review

Journal of Education and Health Promotion
Unpredictable, undesirable, and confusing reactions in the face of psychological or medical interventions make the clinical presentation more complicated and may represent clinically unexplained symptoms and also disturbed the doctor–patients ...
Hamid Nasiri-Dehsorkhi, Shahram Vaziri, Ahmad Esmaillzadeh, Peyman Adibi   +3 more
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COVID‐19 Vaccination and the Risk of Migraine Chronification: A Comparative Cohort Study of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Patients With Episodic Migraine

Brain and Behavior, Volume 16, Issue 11, November 2026.
In a controlled cohort of 60 patients with episodic migraine, migraine chronification over 6 months did not differ significantly between 30 vaccinated and 30 unvaccinated individuals. A chronic‐frequency outcome was numerically lower after vaccination, but the confidence intervals were wide, so neither harm nor benefit can be confirmed.
Mostafa Meshref, Hossam Younis, Khabab Abbasher Hussien Mohamed Ahmed, Elsayed Abed, Abdallah Abbas, Yehia Nabil, Abdullah Ashraf Hamad, Muhammad Atallah Gad, Nour Shaheen, Mahmoud Farid Abdelmonem, Ahmed Gaballa, Ahmed Kohail, Mohamed Mahmoud Ahmed, Abdelsalam Abdullah Ali, Abdelrahman R. Youssef, Khaled Moghib   +15 more
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Optimizing Expectations Leads to Enhanced Efficacy of a Mindfulness‐Based Intervention in Individuals With Low‐Baseline Expectations: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Journal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 82, Issue 11, Page 1809-1821, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Treatment expectations for medical and psychological treatments and positive patient‐provider interactions are critical mechanisms driving the placebo effect and may augment an intervention's effects. However, it remains unclear whether optimizing treatment expectations is beneficial for all individuals.
Stefan Salzmann, Frank Euteneuer, Christiane A. Melzig, Winfried Rief, Christoph Benke   +4 more
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Nocebo and pain: an overview of the psychoneurobiological mechanisms

PAIN Reports, 2017
. Introduction:. Nocebo effects are defined as adverse events related to negative expectations and learning processes that are involved in the modulation of the descending pain pathways.
Maxie Blasini, Nicole Corsi, Regine Klinger, Luana Colloca   +3 more
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ANCHOR: Communication Partner Training for Maintaining Friendships After Aphasia

International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 6, November/December 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Aphasia significantly disrupts social relationships, with friendship loss occurring early after stroke and continuing into chronic stages. Despite friendships being prioritised by people with aphasia and families, they rarely receive explicit focus in rehabilitation.
Jamie H. Azios, Brent Archer, Natalie F. Douglas, Katie A. Strong, Mary Ann Eller, Maura Silverman, Nina Simmons‐Mackie, Linda Worrall   +7 more
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Cholecystokinin input from the anterior cingulate cortex to the lateral periaqueductal gray mediates nocebo pain behavior in mice

Nature Communications
The nocebo effect, opposite of the better-known placebo effect, in which anticipation of harm worsens pain and other symptoms, is increasingly thought to be responsible for poor clinical outcomes.
Sandra J. Poulson, Aleksandrina Skvortsova, Fatama Tuz Zahra, Damien C. Boorman, Seyed Asaad Karimi, Lisiê V. Paz, Wanning Cui, Antonietta Mandatori, Jacob Burek, Zahra Siddiqi, Maryam I. Fazili, Shivani R. Gami, Oakley B. Morgan, Mélanie Di Maria, Anton Dinh, Lianfang Liang, Robert Contofalsky, Jeffrey S. Mogil, Loren J. Martin   +18 more
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