Today we present 34 new placebo and nocebo research papers, comments and abstracts identified during July 2019. As usual, they are based on new PUBMED publication using the search terms „placebo“ and „nocebo“ and are hand-selected from more than 1091 new publications during the preceding month. Previously published monthly updates can be found in our archive. Todays selection as well as all previously identified papers will also go into our placebo research library that currently contains more than 4,000 relevant papers. If you would like to get access to the full database, please register for our newsletter and provide us with your email address and affiliation.
Babel, P. (2019).
Classical Conditioning as a Distinct Mechanism of Placebo Effects. Front Psychiatry, 10, 449.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00449
Belcher, A. M., Cole, T. O., Greenblatt, A. D., Hoag, S. W., Epstein, D. H., Wagner, M., Billing, A. S., Massey, E., Hamilton, K. R., Kozak, Z. K., Welsh, C. J., Weintraub, E., Wickwire, E. M., Wish, E. D., Kaptchuk, T. J., & Colloca, L. (2019).
Open-label dose-extending placebos for opioid use disorder: a protocol for a randomised controlled clinical trial with methadone treatment. BMJ Open, 9(6), e026604.
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026604
Blasini, M., Movsas, S., & Colloca, L. (2018).
Placebo hypoalgesic effects in pain: Potential applications in dental and orofacial pain management. Semin Orthod, 24(2), 259–268.
https://doi.org/10.1053/j.sodo.2018.04.001
Blease, C. R., Bernstein, M. H., & Locher, C. (2019).
Open-label placebo clinical trials: is it the rationale, the interaction or the pill? BMJ Evid Based Med.
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2019-111209
Braillon, A., Ross, N., Fisken, R. A., Ernst, E., & Colquhoun, D. (2019).
Placebo therapy for cancer-related pain: an alternative to psychotherapy or health misinformation? Support Care Cancer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-019-05010-w
Castelnuovo, G., & Schreurs, K. M. G. (2019).
Editorial: Pain Management in Clinical and Health Psychology. Front Psychol.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01295
Colloca, L., Schenk, L. A., Nathan, D. E., Robinson, O., & Grillon, C. (2019).
When therapeutic expectancies are violated: An fMRI study. Clin Pharmacol Ther.
https://doi.org/10.1002/cpt.1587
Davis, A. J., Hettinga, F., & Beedie, C. (2019).
You don’t need to administer a placebo to elicit a placebo effect: Social factors trigger neurobiological pathways to enhance sports performance. Eur J Sport Sci.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17461391.2019.1635212
Dickert, N. W., & Miller, F. G. (2018).
Sham-Controlled Trials for Coronary Interventions: Ethically Acceptable and Ethically Important. J Am Coll Cardiol, 71(1), 95-97.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2017.11.032
Enck, P., & Zipfel, S. (2019).
Placebo Effects in Psychotherapy: A Framework. Front Psychiatry, 10, 456.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00456
Evers, A. W. M., Peerdeman, K. J., & van Laarhoven, A. I. M. (2019).
What is new in the psychology of chronic itch? Exp Dermatol.
https://doi.org/10.1111/exd.13992
Faasse, K., Helfer, S. G., Barnes, K., Colagiuri, B., & Geers, A. L. (2019).
Experimental Assessment of Nocebo Effects and Nocebo Side Effects: Definitions, Study Design, and Implications for Psychiatry and Beyond. Front Psychiatry, 10, 396.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00396
Fanti-Oren, S., Birenbaum-Carmeli, D., Nemet, D., Pantanowitz, M., & Eliakim, A. (2019).
Significant effect of information placebo on exercise test results in children with normal weight, overweight and obesity. Acta Paediatr.
https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.14959
Girach, A., Aamir, A., & Zis, P. (2019).
The neurobiology under the placebo effect. Drugs Today (Barc), 55(7), 469–476.
https://doi.org/10.1358/dot.2019.55.7.3010575
Glombiewski, J. A., Rheker, J., Wittkowski, J., Rebstock, L., & Rief, W. (2019).
Placebo mechanisms in depression: An experimental investigation of the impact of expectations on sadness in female participants. J Affect Disord, 256, 658–667.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2019.06.070
Gonczi, L., & Lakatos, P. L. (2019).
Can We Say No to the “Nocebo Effect” in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases? J Crohns Colitis.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjz098
Greinacher, R., Buhôt, L., Möller, L., & Learmonth, G. (2019).
The time course of ineffective sham-blinding during low-intensity (1 mA) transcranial direct current stimulation. Eur J Neurosci.
https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.14497
Hird, E. J., Charalambous, C., El-Deredy, W., Jones, A. K., & Talmi, D. (2019).
Boundary effects of expectation in human pain perception. Sci Rep, 9(1), 9443.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45811-x
Höfler, C., Potthoff, J., & Schienle, A. (2019).
A Direct Comparison of Placebo and Nocebo Effects on Visuospatial Attention: An Eye-Tracking Experiment. Front Psychiatry, 10, 446.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00446
Howe, L. C., Leibowitz, K. A., & Crum, A. J. (2019).
When Your Doctor “Gets It” and “Gets You”: The Critical Role of Competence and Warmth in the Patient-Provider Interaction. Front Psychiatry, 10, 475.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00475
Hu, J. (2019).
Compounded creams no better than placebo creams for localised chronic pain. Evid Based Nurs.
https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2019-103128
Huang, Z., Chen, J., Hu, Q. S., Huang, Q., Ma, J., Pei, F. X., Shen, B., & Kraus, V. B. (2019).
Meta-analysis of pain and function placebo responses in pharmacological osteoarthritis trials. Arthritis Res Ther, 21(1), 173.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13075-019-1951-6
Junior, P. N. A., Barreto, C. M. N., de Iracema Gomes Cubero, D., & Del Giglio, A. (2019).
The efficacy of placebo for the treatment of cancer-related fatigue: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Support Care Cancer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-019-04977-w
Kirsch, I. (2019).
Placebo Effect in the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety. Front Psychiatry, 10, 407.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00407
Li, Y., Huang, J., He, Y., Yang, J., Lv, Y., Liu, H., Liang, L., Li, H., Zheng, Q., Li, L. (2019).
The Impact of Placebo Response Rates on Clinical Trial Outcome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Antidepressants in Children and Adolescents with Major Depressive Disorder. J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol.
https://doi.org/10.1089/cap.2019.0022
Liu, C., Chen, L., & Yu, R. (2019).
Category-based generalization of placebo and nocebo effects. Acta Psychol (Amst.), 199, 102894.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.102894
Long, Q., Hu, N., Li, H., Zhang, Y., Yuan, J., & Chen, A. (2019).
Suggestion of cognitive enhancement improves emotion regulation. Emotion.
https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000629
Meeuwis, S. H., van Middendorp, H., van Laarhoven, A. I. M., Veldhuijzen, D. S., Lavrijsen, A. P. M., & Evers, A. W. M. (2019).
Effects of Open- and Closed-Label Nocebo and Placebo Suggestions on Itch and Itch Expectations. Front Psychiatry, 10, 436.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00436
Polgar, S., & Mohamed, S. (2019).
Evidence-Based Evaluation of the Ethics of Sham Surgery for Parkinson’s Disease. J Parkinsons Dis, 9(3), 565–574.
https://doi.org/10.3233/JPD-191577
Prediger, B., Meyer, E., Büchter, R., & Mathes, T. (2019).
Nocebo effects of a simplified package leaflet compared to unstandardised oral information and a standard package leaflet: a pilot randomised controlled trial. Trials, 20(1), 458.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3565-3
Wartolowska, K. (2019).
The nocebo effect as a source of bias in the assessment of treatment effects. F1000Research, 8, 5.
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.17611.2
Weinrib, R., Browne, E. N., Shapley-Quinn, M. K., van der Straten, A., Beksinska, M., Mgodi, N., Musara, P., Mphili, N., Schwartz, J. L., Ju, S., Hanif, H., Montgomery, E. T., & Quatro Study Team (2019).
Perspectives from Young South African and Zimbabwean Women on Attributes of Four (Placebo) Vaginal Microbicide Delivery Forms. AIDS Behav.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-019-02576-8
Winkler, A., & Hermann, C. (2019).
Placebo- and Nocebo-Effects in Cognitive Neuroenhancement: When Expectation Shapes Perception. Front Psychiatry, 10, 498.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00498
Wolters, F., Peerdeman, K. J., & Evers, A. W. M. (2019).
Placebo and Nocebo Effects Across Symptoms: From Pain to Fatigue, Dyspnea, Nausea, and Itch. Front Psychiatry, 10, 470.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00470