Just as the mind can convince the body of positive outcomes with a mere placebo, it also has the capacity to evoke negative consequences through a phenomenon known as the “nocebo effect.” ...

Why is it used in vaccine trials?) Blease ― a health researcher at Uppsala University, Sweden, and one of the authors of "The ...

Mondaini et al. have investigated whether the higher incidences observed in clinical practice could be the result of a nocebo effect—an adverse effect not directly related to the specific ...