nocebo effect

English

Noun

nocebo effect (plural nocebo effects)

1. A deleterious placebo effect.
   • 1997 June, Fabrizio Benedettia with Martina Amanzioa, Caterina Casadioc, Alberto Oliaroc, and Giuliano Maggic, “Blockade of nocebo hyperalgesia by the cholecystokinin antagonist proglumide”, in Pain, volume 71, number 2, →DOI, pages 135–140:

     A nocebo effect was observed when saline was administered.

   • 2012 August 10, Paul Enck with Winfried Häuser, “Beward the Nocebo Effect”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The nocebo effect can be observed even when people take real, non-placebo drugs.

   • 2012 November 7, The Colbert Report‎^[2], Stephen Colbert (actor):

     The nocebo effect is a negative placebo effect. It's why I had my doctor take me off my placebos. They kept curing my hypochondria.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nocebo effect.

Translations

deleterious placebo effect

• Dutch: nocebo-effect n
• Finnish: lumehaitta, nosebovaikutus
• French: effet nocebo (fr) m