A new study has warned that without intervention, ADHD education could cause many young people to wrongly diagnose themselves ...

Growing awareness of ADHD may be leading some young adults to mistakenly believe they have the disorder, according to new U ...

In healthy volunteers, negative expectations exert stronger and longer-lasting effects on pain than positive expectations, consistent with a better-safe-than-sorry account of placebo and nocebo ...

The placebo and nocebo effects highlight the impact that our beliefs and perceptions can have on our physical health. So, it ...

Patient satisfaction efforts may have a “nocebo effect” on some patients, since many enter hospitals expecting a negative experience and can actually feel worse after treatment, according to a ...

Negative expectations can worsen perceived pain more strongly – and for longer – than positive expectations can make it feel better, according to new research. The study, published recently as a ...

Side effects experienced when taking oral contraception may be affected by women's expectations and beliefs about the pill, according to an exploratory study by psychologists. Researchers at the ...

Switching from an originator biologic to a biosimilar can sometimes trigger a nocebo effect, where negative expectations lead to worsened symptoms, reduced treatment efficacy, or perceived adverse ...

Introduction: Clinical and laboratory studies demonstrate that placebo and nocebo effects influence various symptoms and conditions after the administration of both inert and active treatments.