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Nocebo vs Placebo - What's the difference?

nocebo | placebo | Antonyms |

Placebo is a antonym of nocebo.



As nouns the difference between nocebo and placebo

is that nocebo is a substance which a patient experiences as harmful due to previous negative perception, but which is in fact pharmacologically (medicinally) inactive while placebo is the vespers sung in the office for the dead.

nocebo

English

(wikipedia nocebo)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pharmacology) A substance which a patient experiences as harmful due to previous negative perception, but which is in fact pharmacologically (medicinally) inactive.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year= 1961 , year_published= , author= Walter P. Kennedy , by= , title= Medical World , url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/13752532 , original= , chapter= The nocebo reaction , section= September , isbn= , edition= , publisher= , location= , editor= , volume= 95 , page= 203 , passage= It is somewhat surprising that little attention has been drawn to the existence of the contrary effect [to the placebo] — which I may call the nocebo reaction. }}
  • * 2009 , Stuart Blackman, " Why health warnings can be bad," Financial Times , 25 Apr. (retrieved 12 May 2009):
  • In the case of the nocebo , it is negative expectations that become self-fulfilling prophecies.
  • * 2014 , Jennifer Welsh, " Researchers Who Provided Key Evidence For Gluten Sensitivity Have Now Thoroughly Shown That It Doesn't Exist," Business Insider , 15 May 2014):
  • It seems to be a "nocebo " effect — the self-diagnosed gluten sensitive patients expected to feel worse on the study diets, so they did.

    Antonyms

    * placebo

    Derived terms

    * nocebo effect

    See also

    * drug ----

    placebo

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (Roman Catholicism) The vespers sung in the office for the dead.
  • * 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 349:
  • There the placebo , the office for the dead, was sung, and a vigil kept throughout the night.
  • (medicine) A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
  • * 2010 , Edzard Ernst, The Guardian , 22 Feb 2010:
  • The acid test, I thought, was whether homeopathic remedies behave differently from placebos when submitted to clinical trials.

    Antonyms

    * nocebo

    Derived terms

    * antiplacebo * nonplacebo * placebic * placebo effect