Sentences with phrase «as nocebo»

A growing body of evidence is emerging for a phenomenon known as the nocebo effect.

Many physical maladies can be triggered by negative expectations, a phenomenon known as the nocebo effect.

Not exact matches

Key brain regions have been identified by imaging studies, as have key neurochemical pathways bringing about the possibility of using drugs to block the nocebo effect.

Patients can experience very real pain as a result of the nocebo effect and the expectation that drugs will cause harm.

It was a subject - oriented adjective that was used to label the harmful, injurious, unpleasant or undesirable reactions (or responses) that a subject manifested - thus, nocebo reactions (or nocebo responses)- as a consequence of the administration of an inert, dummy drug, in cases where these responses had not been chemically generated, and were entirely due to the subject's pessimistic belief and expectation that the inert drug in question would produce harmful, injurious, unpleasant or undesirable consequences.

It was a fascinating idea, but still mostly inference, as Benedetti and others weren't able to truly watch either the placebo or the nocebo process unfurl.

Researchers have found that we're more likely to experience negative side effects when we take a drug we think is pricier — a flip side of the placebo effect known as the «nocebo» effect.

As I suggested in this post Was Angelina Jolie Medically Hexed, doctors have the power to activate nocebo effects in patients.

I loaded these doctors up with scientific data from our most respected journal, The New England Journal of Medicine, to support my point, sharing the data that demonstrates that the doctor can be either the placebo or its evil twin opposite, the nocebo, depending on whether, as doctors, we are kind, compassionate, and optimistic versus rude, rushed, and pessimistic.

And, even where these so - called «researchers» pretend to investigate the issue, they hold no relevant qualifications; such as the wind industry's latest mouthpiece, Jacqui Hoepner (who's been flat out running the «nocebo» nonsense on the ABC and elsewhere this week).