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What is a nocebo?

What is a nocebo? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (pharmacology, also attributive) A substance which a patient experiences as harmful due to a previous negative perception, but which is in fact pharmacologically (medicinally) inactive. [from 1961]
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These are not the same as nocebo effects, which are the responses to a substance believed by the subject to be able to cause harm.
Bowling proposes that placebo and nocebo responses are an intrinsic part of therapy outcomes.
A recent review of 100 MS clinical trials over the past 20 years found a prominent nocebo effect.
Benedetti's work on blocking cholecystokinin could pave the way for techniques that remove nocebo outcomes from medical procedures, as well as hinting at more general treatments for both pain and anxiety.
One patient who fell prey to the nocebo effect had become aware of the symptoms that can arise when a person stops taking Prozac.
In an article recently published in the journal Deutsche Ärzteblatt International, we and our colleague Ernil Hansen reviewed 31 studies, conducted by us and other researchers, that demonstrated the nocebo effect.

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