Sentences with phrase «of nocebo»

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

But have you ever heard of the nocebo effect?

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

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

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

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.

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.

«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.»

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.

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.

In its original application, nocebo had a very specific meaning in the medical domains of pharmacology, and nosology, and aetiology.

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.

Alexandra Tinnermann at the University Medical Center Hamburg - Eppendorf and her team wondered if the price of a treatment might affect nocebo strength.

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.

(Nocebos are the opposite of placebos - and you can read about them here.)

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

This is unfortunate because clinical trials increasingly demonstrate the power of placebo (and nocebo) to drastically alter patient outcomes.

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.

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

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

Researchers are now assessing the nocebo and psychogenic hypotheses, finding strong evidence that they are the cause of the majority of complaints and are responsible for significant increases in numbers and severity of complaints.

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.»

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

This is sometimes called the nocebo effect, which is the opposite of the better known placebo effect.

There is also a powerful nocebo effect, in which people can experience real, distressing symptoms if they believe that the source of their concern is harmful.