Sentences with phrase «nocebo effect»

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

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.

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.»

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

All the wellness news you need to know today, including the new mental health protocol for British military personnel, the nocebo effect, and how a...

Many have heard of the placebo effect, but have you heard of the nocebo effect?

The nocebo effect is prevalent in interactions between patients and healthcare workers.

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

In medicine, it is called the nocebo effect.

The article provides many examples of evidence of this effect in clinical trials focusing on pain, cardiovascular disease, Parkinson's disease, migraines, and many others.6 I also discussed the nocebo effect in relation to its harmful outcomes in moralizing food choices as «good» or «bad» in this blog.

A nocebo effect is when a similarly inert material is used in an intervention and causes...

Sploid's takeaway was that non-celiac gluten sensitivity is a nocebo effect.

Now, the study did find a nocebo effect, (not surprising given the gut - brain connection), but the main insight of this study over previous studies is captured in its title: No Effects of Gluten in Patients With Self - Reported Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity After Dietary Reduction of Fermentable, Poorly Absorbed, Short - Chain Carbohydrates.

Key Insight: Given the gut - brain connections, it is impossible to make sense of IBS treatment without acknowledging the placebo effect and its evil twin, the nocebo effect.

In Chapter 2 of Mind Over Medicine, I share the scientific data about «the nocebo effect,» the opposite of the placebo effect, when we think something will harm our health — and it does.

Be wary of people who dwell on the negative and are practicing the nocebo effect.

We also know that the opposite is true, and the mind can think itself sick, which researchers call «the nocebo effect.»

And I don't think that offering a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy (currently the best means of prevention) creates the nocebo effect.

Some researchers suspect the nocebo effect is partly fueling the gluten - free diet fad.

The nocebo effect, a manifestation of psychological expectations, explains why people complain of adverse health effects when living near wind turbines.

If, in time, the symptoms of those living near the turbines are demonstrated to have a physiological basis, it will become apparent that the years of assertions from the wind industry's acousticians that «what you can't hear can't affect you» or that symptoms are psychosomatic or a nocebo effect was a great injustice.

Their symptoms are not Simon Chapman's silly «nocebo effect.»