the placebo and its evil twin, the nocebo effect

Question 1

placebo effect

Answer 1

• power of the body to heal itself
• ex. If headache and you take a pain killer, does your headache go away because of medication or does it go away because you think it will go away

Question 2

nocebo effect

Answer 2

• Nocebo effect = when a person is conditioned to expect a negative response, or to anticipate negative effects from an experience
• Ex. Was given a drug that didn’t work with the knowledge it did tumours went away but when told the drug didn’t work they came back