What is the nocebo effect ?

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It was a subject-oriented adjective that was used to label the harmful, unpleasant, or undesirable reactions or responses that a subject manifested thus, "nocebo reactions" or "nocebo responses" as a result of administering an inert dummy drug, where these responses had not been chemically generated, and were entirely due to the subject's pessimistic belief and expectation that the inert drug would produce harmful, injurious, unpleasant, or undesirable consequences.In these cases, there is no "real" drug involved, but the actual harmful, unpleasant or undesirable biochemical, physiological, behavioural, emotional, and/or cognitive consequences of the administration of the inert drug are very real.A "classic" example of the nocebo response is someone dying of fright after being bitten by a non-venomous snake.

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I think you mean the placebo effect. It is when a dr. gives a person a sugar pill to make them think that they are digesting an actuall pill that will solve their "problem".

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A nocebo (Latin for "I will harm") is something that should be ineffective but which causes symptoms of ill health. A nocebo effect is an ill effect caused by the suggestion or belief that something is harmful. The term 'nocebo' became popular in the 1990s. Prior to that, both pleasant and harmful effects thought to be due to the power of suggestion were usually referred to as being due to the placebo effect.see also:
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