When words are painful: Unraveling the mechanisms of the nocebo effect

2007/03/27 by Francesco Benedetti, F. Benedetti, Michele Lanotte +5 · 4 citations
Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Anxiety #Clinical psychology #Disease #Hyperalgesia #Internal medicine #Mechanism (biology) #Medicine #Neurochemical #Neuroscience #Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function #Nocebo #Nocebo Effect #Nociception #Pain Management and Placebo Effect #Pain Mechanisms and Treatments #Placebo #Psychiatry #Psychology #Psychotherapist

paper · doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.02.020

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• Nonspecific Medication Side Effects and the Nocebo Phenomenon
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• THE MECHANISM OF PLACEBO ANALGESIA
• Expectation of Pain Enhances Responses to Nonpainful Somatosensory Stimulation in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Parietal Operculum/Posterior Insula: an Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study
• From sensation to cognition
• The Nocebo Phenomenon: Concept, Evidence, and Implications for Public Health
• Open versus hidden medical treatments: The patient's knowledge about a therapy affects the therapy outcome.

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