GREAT BRITAIN–(ENEWSPF)–17 February 2011. Poor expectations of treatment can override all the effect of a potent pain-relieving drug, a brain imaging study at Oxford University has shown.
In contrast, positive expectations of treatment doubled the natural physiological or biochemical effect of the opioid drug among the healthy volunteers in the study.
The study of the placebo effect – and its opposite the nocebo effect – is published in Science Translational Medicine. The findings suggest that…
