Psychobiological mechanisms of placebo and nocebo effects: pathways to improve treatments and reduce side effects

KJ Petrie, W Rief - Annual review of psychology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Placebo effects constitute a major part of treatment success in medical interventions. The
nocebo effect also has a major impact, as it accounts for a significant proportion of the …

Enhance placebo, avoid nocebo: How contextual factors affect physiotherapy outcomes

M Testa, G Rossettini - Manual therapy, 2016 - Elsevier
Introduction Placebo and nocebo represent complex and distinct psychoneurobiological
phenomena in which behavioural and neurophysiological modifications occur together with …

Trust in the health care professional and health outcome: A meta-analysis

J Birkhäuer, J Gaab, J Kossowsky, S Hasler… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Objective To examine whether patients' trust in the health care professional is associated
with health outcomes. Study selection We searched 4 major electronic databases for studies …

Meta-analysis of neural systems underlying placebo analgesia from individual participant fMRI data

M Zunhammer, T Spisák, TD Wager, U Bingel - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
The brain systems underlying placebo analgesia are insufficiently understood. Here we
performed a systematic, participant-level meta-analysis of experimental functional …

Placebo analgesia: a predictive coding perspective

C Büchel, S Geuter, C Sprenger, F Eippert - Neuron, 2014 - cell.com
This Perspective reviews recent findings in placebo hypoalgesia and provides a conceptual
account of how expectations and experience can lead to placebo hypoalgesia. In particular …

Clinical relevance of contextual factors as triggers of placebo and nocebo effects in musculoskeletal pain

G Rossettini, E Carlino, M Testa - BMC musculoskeletal disorders, 2018 - Springer
Placebo and nocebo effects are embodied psycho-neurobiological responses capable of
modulating pain and producing changes at different neurobiological, body at perceptual and …

Placebo effect

F Benedetti, A Piedimonte - Encyclopedia of Molecular Pharmacology, 2022 - Springer
Cytochrome P450 (CYP) monooxygenases, also called mixed-function oxidases, are
versatile hemoprotein enzymes that catalyze the cleavage of molecular oxygen to …

Context matters: the psychoneurobiological determinants of placebo, nocebo and context-related effects in physiotherapy

G Rossettini, EM Camerone, E Carlino… - Archives of …, 2020 - Springer
Background Placebo and nocebo effects embody psychoneurobiological phenomena where
behavioural, neurophysiological, perceptive and cognitive changes occur during the …

Lower urinary tract symptoms in depression: a review

DJ Anderson, A Aucoin, CR Toups… - Health psychology …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) are frequently present in the general population as
patients age with approximately a third of individuals experiencing LUTS during their …

The placebo effect: from concepts to genes

B Colagiuri, LA Schenk, MD Kessler, SG Dorsey… - Neuroscience, 2015 - Elsevier
Despite its initial treatment as a nuisance variable, the placebo effect is now recognized as a
powerful determinant of health across many different diseases and encounters. This is in …