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What is the difference between the placebo effect and nocebo effect?
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The "placebo effect" refers to positive benefits from inactive substances. The "nocebo effect" refers to negative effects of inactive substances.
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What is a negative placebo effect like?
The placebo effect can have a negative influence also, a nocebo. If a placebo is given that the patient believes to be harmful to their health in some way, he or she may develop symptoms appropriate to this belief.
What is the nocebo effect?
The nocebo effect is basically the opposite of the placebo effect. It's when people experience pain, illness or die when they aren't really sick, they just think they are, expect to be, are in an environment where sick people would usually go e.g. a hospital or even see someone else who is sick from something possibly contagious. -Sira
Can you be affected by pot that is near you?
No. You have to deeply inhale pot to keep THC in your lungs. Breathing pot does not produce any kind of effect but psychological ones (placebo/nocebo).
What do placebo and nocebo effects have in common?
I think the things they have in common is how many of the things that the placebo and nocbo all are psychological. and the supject can not experance the placebo and novebo with out them knowing or having an idea of what is happaning( or the idea can form in there mind), If you give someone a sugur pill the only effect related to the pacebo effect to happen are all in the mind and what the subject thinks it is.
What are the ratings and certificates for Wire in the Blood - 2002 Nocebo 5-2?
Wire in the Blood - 2002 Nocebo 5-2 is rated/received certificates of: Germany:16
What is a set of environmental conditions that may induce illness because of a mistaken belief that they are harmful?
nocebo
What damage do communication masts cause to children?
There's no solid evidence either way, although research has shown three things: 1. Irradiation of cells in culture with mobile-phone frequency EM signals does seem to change the expression of proteins, although it's not certain why or what effect this has on the cells 2. One of the most significant findings from the many trials aiming to solve the question is that people claiming to be sensitive to EM irradiation (complaining of anxiety, nausea and malaise around phone towers) seem to suffer these symptoms whether or not they are actually turned on; suggesting that a large proportion, but not necessarily all, of the alleged ill-health caused is actually a result of the nocebo effect. Additionally, many large-scale studies have found little or no evidence of a link between cancers and time spent near phone masts. Similar results have been recorded for those who spend large amounts of time exposed to strong EM signals, such as electrical engineers and military radar workers. 3. You're too lazy to type "mobile phone masts health effects" into google.
Are some diseases caused by evil spirits?
== == A case could be made for an evil spirit causing a disease if one considers that certain types of mental illness qualify as a disease. An evil spirit, either a real or an imagined one, could so affect an individual that he is driven to, say, some kind of psychotic break. The critical question is this: will that person's health insurance cover treatment? Centuries ago yes, in some countries it was considered if a person became very ill such as a high fever, was moaning and groaning they were possessed by demons, evil spirits or even witches, only out of ignorance because they didn't understand about new diseases that they had no control over at that time. Now in modern times we realize that some diseases are genetic in factor or caused by other problems such as our environment for one, and there are many treatments for most diseases. However, new diseases are surfacing all the time and will continue to do so. Cures must be found. The above poster left a good post as far as psychological aspects to whether one believes a demon or evil spirit is the cause of their disease. Unfortunately, some religious cults will have you believe that if you are suffering from some form of mental illness (quite common in modern times) that indeed it has to be caused by demons that have entered the body. This is simply not true. For a so called "evil spirit" may be thought as the cause of a disease, the person targeted must believe in evil spirits. It has not been proven the existence of such entities, however, if someone believes that they do exist, a phenomena called Nocebo (reverse placebo) can occur, causing that the believer experience the symptoms of an illness. However, this is a psychogenic creation of the subject's own mind. No! Disease is caused by your thoughts, and so is health. You can find reference to which thoughts relate to which maladies in the book "Permanent Healing". I will provide a link for you. I have much personal experience with this process.
What actors and actresses appeared in Cry Freedom - 1987?
The cast of Cry Freedom - 1987 includes: Miles Anderson as Lemick James Aubrey as 2nd Passport Control officer Leonard Boucher Niven Boyd as 1st Roadblock policeman Philip Bretherton as Major Boshoff Tommy Buson as Tami Peter Cartwright as Senior police officer Peter Cary as White frontier policeman Carlton Chance as 2nd Rugby player Carl Chase as Policeman Basil Chidyamathamba as Brother-in-law Ruth Chinamando as Mother James Coine as Young boy Judy Cornwell as Receptionist Dudley Dickin as Nationalist Party delegate Karen Drury as Young secretary Jim Findley as Peter Jones Julian Glover as Don Card Hepburn Graham as Soga Michael Graham Cox as 3rd Passport Control officer Patricia Gumede as Shebeen Queen David Guwaza as 2nd Prisoner Garrick Hagon as McElrea Kalie Hanekom as Magistrate Prins Kate Hardie as Jane Woods John Hargreaves as Bruce David Henry as Afrikaner farmer Paul Herzberg as Beukes Christopher Hurst as 3rd Roadblock policeman Paul Jerricho as Sergeant Louw Dominic Kanaventi as Black frontier policeman Munyaradzi Kanaventi as Samora Biko Russell Keith Grant as 2nd Security guard Kevin Kline as Donald Woods Alton Kumalo as Speaker George Lovell as Nkosinathi Biko Robert MacNamara as Security policeman Louis Mahoney as Lesotho government official Mawa Makondo as Jason Joseph Marcell as Moses Claude Maredza as 1st Rugby player William Marlowe as Police captain at Soweto Peggy Marsh as Helen Suzman Walter Matemavi as Nephew Sam Mathambo as Lesotho passport officer Kimpton Mativenga as Black security policeman John Matshikiza as Mapetla Tichatonga Mazhindu as Dilima Alec McCowen as Acting High Commissioner Andrew McCulloch as Policeman Nel Kevin McNally as Ken Ian McNeice Sophie Mgcina as Evalina Hilary Minster as 1st Passport Control officer Nocebo Mlambo as Aunt Zakes Mokae as Father Kani William Morgan Sheppard as Policeman Clement Muchachi as Father Walter Muparutsa as Lesotho businessman Glen Murphy as 1st Secuity guard Marcy Mushore as Niece Star Ncube as 1st Prisoner Albert Ndinda as Alec Robert Phillips as Speaker at funeral Ian Richardson as State Prosecutor Simon Shumba as Young Lesotho official Gerald Sim as Police doctor Lawrence Simbarashe as Informer Josette Simon as Dr. Ramphele Evelyn Sithole as Nurse at clinic Xoliswa Sithole as Nurse at clinic Hans Sittig as Security policeman Wabei Siyolwe as Tenjy Gwyneth Strong as Girl at funeral Adam Stuart Walker as Duncan Woods Hamish Stuart Walker as Gavin Woods Spring Stuart Walker as Mary Woods Nick Tate as Richie Graeme Taylor as Dillon Woods John Thaw as Kruger David Trevena as Mortician Tony Vogel as 2nd Roadblock policeman Denzel Washington as Steve Biko Juanita Waterman as Ntsiki Biko Timothy West as Captain De Wet Andrew Whaley as Sub-Editor Gary Whelan as Police sergeant Penelope Wilton as Wendy Woods
