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Expectancy and Treatment Interactions: A Dissociation between Acupuncture Analgesia and Expectancy Evoked Placebo Analgesia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Recent advances in placebo research have demonstrated the mind's power to alter physiology. In this study, we combined an expectancy manipulation model with both verum and sham acupuncture treatments to address: 1) how and to what extent treatment and ...
Amanzio   +109 more
core   +1 more source

How do physiological networks respond to normobaric hypoxia and isometric exercise?

open access: yesExperimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract The dynamics of physiological systems are impacted by both exercise and hypoxia. Network models can be used to map the interactions between various physiological components in environmental physiology and exercise using the concepts of information theory.
Danilo Bondi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Placebo and Nocebo Effects in Patients With Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy and Heart-Healthy Controls

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2019
The etiology of takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC)—a rare, reversible, and acquired form of cardiac diseases—is not yet fully explained. An exaggerated activation of the sympathetic-nervous-system (SNS) following stressful psychosocial life events is ...
Elisabeth Olliges   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

The placebo and nocebo effects on peak minute power during incremental arm crank ergometry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in European Journal of Sport Science on 19 May 2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17461391.2013.822564.This investigation aimed to explore ...
Andrew Nicholettos   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

Development and Validation of the Brief Inventory of Treatment Expectations in Chronic Pain (BITEC)

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Pain, Volume 30, Issue 2, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Expectations shape therapeutic outcomes, yet their systematic assessment remains limited in clinical and research settings. To address this gap, we developed and validated the Brief Instrument for the Assessment of Treatment Expectations in Chronic Pain (BITEC) using Item Response Theory. Methods The study comprised four phases. (I)
Wolnei Caumo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Finasteride as a model for personalized medicine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The side effects of Finasteride are currently a subject of controversy. Some studies report minor or acceptable adverse effects, which decrease after a variable period of time so that they do not necessitate terminating Finasteride administration ...
Banu, Petrişor   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

A systematic review of sex differences in the placebo and the nocebo effect

open access: yesJournal of Pain Research, 2017
Sara M Vambheim,1 Magne Arve Flaten2 1Department of Psychology, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, 2Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway Objectives: The present review ...
Vambheim SM, Flaten MA
doaj  

Placebo and nocebo responses in restless legs syndrome

open access: yesNeurology, 2017
To estimate the placebo and nocebo responses in restless legs syndrome (RLS) and explore their determinants.Databases were searched up to October 2015. Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials of patients with RLS were included if quantitative data were extractable in the placebo arm.
Silva, Maria A.   +9 more
openaire   +4 more sources

A neural mechanism of direct and observational conditioning for placebo and nocebo responses [PDF]

open access: yesNeuroImage, 2019
Classical theories suggest placebo analgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia are based on expectation and conditioned experience. Whereas the neural mechanism of how expectation modulates placebo and nocebo effects during pain anticipation have been extensively studied, little is known about how experience may change brain networks to produce placebo and ...
Tu, Y   +7 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Considerations for Issues of Regression to the Mean and Contextual Effects in Clinical Trials for Pain in Rheumatic Diseases

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 31-37, January 2026.
Recently, there has been growing discussion about how to best assess pain in clinical trials in rheumatic diseases. Reliable measurement of pain outcomes is essential for accurately determining the effectiveness of treatments. Although pain intensity is the most common measure of change in pain trials, other pain‐related measures, such as pain ...
Yen T. Chen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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