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Trait Neuroticism and the Nocebo Effect: The Mediating Role of Side‐Effect Expectations

Journal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Neuroticism has not only been linked to heightened negative expectations and general somatic complaints but also to increased nocebo responses following medical treatments. Since side‐effect expectations are considered a main driver of nocebo responses, we tested whether side‐effect expectations mediate the neuroticism–nocebo ...
Anton Fischer, Li‐Ching Chuang, Nick Augustat, Pia von Blanckenburg, Erik M. Mueller   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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

Journal 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, Mats Lekander, Camilla I. Svensson, Nils Simon, Alexandra Kuliszkiewicz, Julie Lasselin, Leonie J. T. Balter   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

“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
wiley   +1 more source

The placebo and nocebo effect in sport: intentions, attitudes and beliefs towards sport supplements and banned performance enhancing substances [PDF]

, 2018
The focus of this research is to determine the magnitude and moderators of placebo and nocebo effects on sport performance and to explore the impact of a placebo intervention on athletes’ beliefs and intentions towards sport supplements.
Hurst, P.
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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
doaj   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Dispositional optimism and open‐label placebo responses in hair cortisol concentrations and psychological distress—A randomized controlled trial

Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, Volume 18, Issue 5, October 2026.
Abstract Open‐label placebo (OLP) treatments show beneficial effects on various health‐related outcomes, but studies investigating OLP effects on physiological measures remain scarce. This randomized controlled trial examined the effect of a 4‐week OLP intervention on psychological distress and hair cortisol concentrations (HCC) in 202 healthy ...
Carolin Liedtke, Michael Schaefer, Sören Enge   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source