Chronic, pathological pain remains a global health problem and a challenge to basic and
clinical sciences. A major obstacle to preventing, treating, or reverting chronic pain has been …

Psychosomatic research has advanced over the past decades in dealing with complex
biopsychosocial phenomena and may provide new effective modalities of patient care …

Background: Placebo and nocebo effects occur in clinical or laboratory medical contexts
after administration of an inert treatment or as part of active treatments and are due to …

Introduction Placebo and nocebo represent complex and distinct psychoneurobiological
phenomena in which behavioural and neurophysiological modifications occur together with …

Placebo and nocebo effects are embodied psycho-neurobiological responses capable of
modulating pain and producing changes at different neurobiological, body at perceptual and …

Background Placebo and nocebo effects embody psychoneurobiological phenomena where
behavioural, neurophysiological, perceptive and cognitive changes occur during the …

Patients' expectations are important predictors of the outcome of analgesic treatments, as
demonstrated predominantly in research on placebo effects. Three commonly investigated …

Background Placebo effects contribute substantially to outcome in most fields of medicine.
While clinical trials typically try to control or minimize these effects, the potential of placebo …

Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) has evolved into a pandemic
infectious disease transmitted by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS …

Expectations are a central maintaining mechanism in mental disorders and most
psychological treatments aim to directly or indirectly modify clinically relevant expectations …