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Translating knowledge on placebo and nocebo effects into clinical practice.
Authors
Caliskan EB, Bingel U, Kunkel AAbstract
Positive and negative treatment expectations are powerful modulators of health and treatment outcomes. A substantial part of treatment success is due to contextual factors modulating patient’s expectations towards a treatment. Consequently, treatment expectations should be a target of therapeutic interventions themselves.