Optimizing the Therapeutic Potential in Clinical Settings: Leveraging Placebos and Mitigating Nocebo Effects

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The association between test anxiety, learning strategies, and open-label placebo effects on academic test performance: A secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial

Talking placebo: a qualitative study of patients’ attitudes toward open-label placebo implementation into clinical practice

From catastrophizing to catalyzing: does pain catastrophizing modulate the beneficial impact of open-label placebos for chronic low back pain? A secondary analysis

A dose of doubt: a qualitative study on placebo regulations

Open-Label-Placebos can reduce pain, but not indigestion during gluten challenge in chronic pain patients

Revisiting the SSRI vs. placebo debate in the treatment of social anxiety disorder: the role of expectancy effects, neural responsivity, and monoamine transporters

Noble Humbug? Hard and soft laws on clinical placebo use

Optimized communication during risk disclosure to reduce nocebo headache after lumbar puncture—a study protocol for a randomized controlled clinical trial

Contextual effects in musculoskeletal pain: are we overlooking essential factors?

The influence of expectations on shame, rumination and cognitive flexibility: an experimental investigation on affect-regulatory characteristics of deceptive placebos

Interdisciplinary pain program participants with high catastrophizing scores improve function utilizing enriched therapeutic encounters and integrative health techniques: a retrospective study

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