Fatigue, palpitations, shortness of breath . and on it goes. The list of possible side effects in a medication package insert can be unsettling. So can a preoperative consultation, when the surgeon informs you of all the risks. The problem is that many patients become fixated on potential complications or adverse reactions - which then may occur for no physiological reason, but because of negative expectations. Doctors call this the nocebo effect, the reverse of the placebo effect whereby expe
Last week, Kaya Peerdeman received the SIPS Early Career Award at the fourth international conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies in Duisburg, Germany.Central to Kaya Peerdeman's work are studies in the field of placebo effec