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Long-Term Effects of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Hypnotherapy in Patients with Severe Endometriosis - a Retrospective Evaluation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Background: 15% of patients with severe endometriosis suffer from pain symptoms in spite of pharmacological and surgical treatments. In this retrospective study we aimed to assess the effectiveness of a combined therapy of Traditional Chinese medicine ...
Böhling, Barbara   +2 more
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Paradigm clashes and progress: a personal reflection on a 50-year association with ABCT [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Why is ABCT a successful, vibrant, and growing association when most other professional associations are withering on the vine? Since the first annual meeting of the organization, which I was privileged to attend, I have witnessed repeated changes in ...
Barlow, David H.
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Conditioned Placebo- and Nocebo-Like Effects in Adolescents: The Role of Conscious Awareness, Sensory Discrimination, and Executive Function

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
Background: Conditioning is a key mechanism of placebo and nocebo effects in adults. Little is known about the underlying mechanisms of placebo and nocebo effects in youth and how they might be influenced by conscious awareness and cognitive abilities ...
Regula Neuenschwander   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
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Nonmedical Switching From Originators to Biosimilars: Does the Nocebo Effect Explain Treatment Failures and Adverse Events in Rheumatology and Gastroenterology?

open access: yesRheumatology and Therapy, 2020
The act of nonmedical switching, defined as switching stable patients who are generally doing well with their current therapy from an originator biologic to its biosimilar, has been endorsed as a reasonable treatment strategy.
Roy Fleischmann   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

No Reason to Feel Sick? Nocebo Responses in the Placebo Arms of Experimental Endotoxemia Studies

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2019
Adverse side effects are reported by a large proportion of patients undergoing medical treatment in clinical practice or clinical trials. Nocebo effects, induced by negative treatment expectancies, can contribute to negative patient-reported outcomes but
Sven Benson, Sigrid Elsenbruch
doaj   +1 more source

The effect of the type and colour of placebo stimuli on placebo effects induced by observational learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Research shows that placebo analgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia can be induced through observational learning. Our aim was to replicate and extend these results by studying the influence of the type and colour of stimuli used as placebos on the placebo ...
Bąbel, Przemysław, Świder, Karolina
core   +3 more sources

The Influence of Expectation on Nondeceptive Placebo and Nocebo Effects

open access: yesPain Research and Management, 2018
Nondeceptive placebo has demonstrated its efficiency in clinical practice. Although the underlying mechanisms are still unclear, nondeceptive placebo effect and nondeceptive nocebo effect may be mediated by expectation.
Hua Wei   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nocebo in Biosimilars and Generics in Neurology: A Systematic Review

open access: yesFrontiers in Pharmacology, 2019
Background: Nocebo refers to adverse events related to patients’ negative expectations and previous experiences, mediated by several neurobiological pathways within the brain.
Ioanna Spanou   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prescribing placebos ethically: the appeal of negatively informed consent [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Kihlbom has recently argued that a system of seeking negatively informed consent might be preferable in some cases to the ubiquitous informed consent model. Although this theory is perhaps not powerful enough to supplant informed consent in most settings,
Shaw, D.M.
core   +1 more source

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