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Placebo use in the United Kingdom: results from a national survey of primary care practitioners [PDF]

, 2013
Objectives: Surveys in various countries suggest 17% to 80% of doctors prescribe ‘placebos’ in routine practice, but prevalence of placebo use in UK primary care is unknown.Methods: We administered a web-based questionnaire to a representative sample of ...
Heneghan, C, Stevens, Sarah, Wolstenholme Jane, Hobbs, Richard, Stevens, S, Louhiala, Pekka, Sarah Stevens, Hemilä, Harri, Bishop, F.L, George Lewith, Hobbs F. D. Richard, Wolstenholme, Jane, Wolstenholme, J, Bishop, FL, Hobbs, F.D.R., Carl Heneghan, Stevens Sarah, Howick, Jeremy, Jeremy Howick, Lewith, George T., Felicity L Bishop, F D Richard Hobbs, Heneghan, C., Wolstenholme, J., Bishop Felicity L., Howick, J, Howick, J., Howick Jeremy, Heneghan Carl, Hobbs, FD, Lewith, G, Puustinen, Raimo, Lewith George, Jane Wolstenholme, Heneghan, Carl   +34 more
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Nocebo Responses in Brain Diseases: A Systematic Review of the Current Literature

, 2018
Placebo is an intervention with no therapeutic effect that is used as a control in randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Placebo effects and responses can produce a beneficial effect that cannot be attributed to the properties of the intervention itself, since it is usually inactive, and should, therefore, be due to the patient's expectations about ...
Zis, Panagiotis, Mitsikostas, Dimos-Dimitrios, Zis, Panagiotis, Mitsikostas, Dimos-Dimitrios   +3 more
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Can a Brief Relaxation Exercise Modulate Placebo or Nocebo Effects in a Visceral Pain Model?

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019
Translational research aiming to elucidate mediators and moderators of placebo and nocebo effects is highly relevant. This experimental study tested effects of a brief progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) exercise, designed to alter psychobiological ...
Sigrid Elsenbruch, Till Roderigo, Paul Enck, Sven Benson   +3 more
doaj   +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

Classical Conditioning as a Distinct Mechanism of Placebo Effects

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019
Classical conditioning was suggested as a mechanism of placebo effects in the 1950s. It was then challenged by response expectancy theory, which proposed that classical conditioning is just one of the means by which expectancies are acquired and changed.
Przemysław Bąbel
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Short‐Term Effect of Negative Verbal Language Versus Positive Verbal Language on Physical and Functional Capacity and Pain in People With Chronic Primary Low Back Pain

European Journal of Pain, Volume 30, Issue 8, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Low back pain (LBP) is the leading cause of years lived with disability. While education is recommended by most guidelines, the type of language used can lead to a placebo or nocebo effect. This study aims to compare the short‐term effect of negative language versus positive language on physical and functional capacity in ...
Yves Schwendenmann, Pierre‐Antoine Palacios, Martin Descarreaux, Andrée‐Anne Marchand   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nocebo Phenomena in Medicine

, 2012
Background: Nocebo phenomena are common in clinical practice and have recently become a popular topic of research and discussion among basic scientists, clinicians, and ethicists.
Ernil Hansen, Paul Enck, Hansen, Ernil, Winfried Häuser, Häuser, Winfried, Enck, Paul   +5 more
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Risk Assessment of Radio Frequencies and Public Information [PDF]

Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (JRACR), 2013
The rapid, worldwide development of mobile phones is accompanied in many countries by public concern over the possible health risks of radio frequencies (RF).
Marc Poumadère, Anne Perrin
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Mapping Pain Memory Across Modalities: Distinct Spatial Representations of Recalled Visceral and Somatic Pain

European Journal of Pain, Volume 30, Issue 8, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Representation of pain areas offers a spatial dimension of pain perception, yet it has rarely been used in the context of visceral pain. This experimental study examined spatial patterns of acute visceral and somatic pain and their recall.
Catrin Guddat, Genisius Hartanto, Robert J. Pawlik, Thomas Graven‐Nielsen, Sigrid Elsenbruch, Jana L. Aulenkamp   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Behavioral and electrodermal data on implicit nocebo conditioning using supraliminally presented visual stimuli

Data in Brief, 2019
This article contains intensity and aversiveness ratings of electrical stimuli and data on electrodermal activity (skin conductance level and skin conductance response) during an implicit conditioning procedure.
Anne-Kathrin Bräscher, Michael Witthöft   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source