Sentences with word «nocebo»

The study looks at data on 26 side effects from a trial of approximately 10,000 patients and suggests that cases of muscle pain and weakness are unlikely to be directly caused by statins, but may instead be due to the so - called nocebo effect, where the expectation of side effects can make patients more likely to report them.

Something that I feel is understudied is the role of nocebo on digestive symptoms.

Studies on nocebo are still in their infancy, largely because experiments designed to harm are an ethical no - go.

This was an extreme case, but the so - called nocebo effect — psychosomatic symptoms erroneously blamed on medication — is a common occurrence.

It seems that those with IBS are more apt to have side effects (nocebo reactions) to placebos than others.12

The article also notes that psychosocial factors that promote therapeutic placebo effects have the potential to cause adverse consequences, known as nocebo effects.

They concluded that «complaints are consistent with psychogenic hypotheses that health problems arising are «communicated diseases» with nocebo effects likely to play an important role in the aetiology of complaints.»

«Therefore, finding a way to balance the need for full disclosure of potential adverse effects of drugs with the desire to avoid inducing nocebo effects is a pressing issue in health care.»

He was also curious whether a similar process could explain nocebo effects — a parallel phenomenon in which the brain is fooled into perceiving increased pain.

Perhaps, Benedetti thought, CCK is to nocebos what opioids are to placebos: Whereas blocking opioids canceled pain relief, blocking CCK actually supercharged it by allowing opioids to run wild in the brain.

Further studies on placebo and nocebo point to the importance of controlling for these effects in clinical trials in volunteers and in patients.

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

Evidence is mounting that we are not nimby's or deluded or under some irrational nocebo effect, our walls do indeed shake from noise and the noise emissions are in fact harmful.

I'll give real life examples of nocebo, from the man who almost put himself in a coma after «overdosing» on placebo anti-depressants, to the patient mis - diagnosed with liver cancer who died tumour - free within the three months he was told he had left to live.

«There has been a lot of research on placebo and relatively little on nocebo,» Tinnermann says.

Unless, of course, it was placibo effect in the latter and nocebo effect in the former.

Expectation and conditioning influence the nocebo response, and there are possible sex differences.

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.

While placebos are well known, the influence of its evil twin, nocebo, is unclear.

As well as causing patient distress and skewing clinical trial results, nocebo could be costing the health care industry big bucks in terms of inexplicable side effects.

His decline and subsequent recovery brought about by a giant green placebo lizard, mark extremes of related phenomena — nocebo and placebo — the ability of dummy pills or suggestion to worsen or benefit health.

If doctors play down the pain of a procedure, patients might avoid the nocebo effect — the placebo effect's evil twin.

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

But, when patients knew they were taking a statin, they were more likely to report symptoms, a finding consistent with the nocebo effect.

They note that this may mean the strength of the nocebo effect is likely underestimated in this trial.

The placebo effect has an evil twin — the nocebo effect — which can make you think yourself ill, or even dead

Professor Peter Sever, lead author from the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK, says: «Just as the placebo effect can be very strong, so too can the nocebo effect.

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.

Häuser believes the nocebo effect stems in part from the warnings physicians give patients before prescribing medication.

Furthermore, in some people, this pain may be caused by the nocebo effect, rather than the drug itself.

Instead, the results suggested a nocebo effect: If you think your stomach will be upset, you probably will have tummy trouble, no matter what diet you're on.

Physicians should be aware of the placebo and nocebo effects when describing medications to patients, says Per Aslaksen, a psychologist at the University of Tromsø in Norway who researches the placebo effect and who wasn't involved in the work.

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.

Helen Pilcher highlights the strength of the nocebo effect, in which negative expectations can produce harmful effects (16 May, p...

The nocebo effect happens when people have bad side effects after being told there's a chance they might feel them.

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

«One is the «nocebo» effect, where patients and clinicians expect the generic products to be inferior, so the therapeutic effect is assumed to be reduced.»

It is likely rooted in negative expectations, which sounds simple, but nocebo effect symptoms can be so severe that people drop out of clinical trials.

But have you ever heard of the nocebo effect?

I resisted the urge to say, «How dare you inflict the nocebo effect upon my poor mother?»

We talked about the placebo and nocebo effect.

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