Psychobiological mechanisms of placebo and nocebo effects: pathways to improve treatments and reduce side effects

KJ Petrie, W Rief - Annual review of psychology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Placebo effects constitute a major part of treatment success in medical interventions. The
nocebo effect also has a major impact, as it accounts for a significant proportion of the …

[HTML][HTML] Electromagnetic hypersensitivity: a critical review of explanatory hypotheses

M Dieudonné - Environmental Health, 2020 - Springer
Background Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) is a condition defined by the attribution
of non-specific symptoms to electromagnetic fields (EMF) of anthropogenic origin. Despite its …

[HTML][HTML] “Symptoms associated with environmental factors”(SAEF)–Towards a paradigm shift regarding “idiopathic environmental intolerance” and related phenomena

JV Haanes, S Nordin, L Hillert, M Witthöft… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Health conditions characterized by symptoms associated with chemical, physical and
biological environmental factors unrelated to objectifiable pathophysiological mechanisms …

Prevalence of various environmental intolerances in a Swedish and Finnish general population

K Karvala, M Sainio, E Palmquist, MH Nyback… - Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective To determine the prevalence of various environmental intolerances (EIs), using
several criteria in a Swedish and a Finnish general population. Ill-health attributed to low …

Modern health worries: A systematic review

Z Dömötör, S Nordin, M Witthoeft, F Köteles - Journal of psychosomatic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Summary Objective Modern health worries (MHWs) refer to people's concerns about
possible harmful effects of modern technologies, and are widespread in the developed …

Can explicit suggestions about the harmfulness of EMF exposure exacerbate a nocebo response in healthy controls?

A Verrender, SP Loughran, A Dalecki… - Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
While there has been consistent evidence that symptoms reported by individuals who suffer
from Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance attributed to Electromagnetic Fields (IEI-EMF) are …

Dynamic relations among COVID-19-related media exposure and worries during the COVID-19 pandemic

A Schmidt, A Brose, AC Kramer, F Schmiedek… - Psychology & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives This study investigated how COVID-19-related media exposure during the
COVID-19 crisis was related to same-day and next-day COVID-19-related worries. Design A …

Somatosensory illusions elicited by sham electromagnetic field exposure: experimental evidence for a predictive processing account of somatic symptom perception

C Wolters, J Harzem, M Witthoeft… - Psychosomatic …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Objective According to the predictive processing theory of somatic symptom generation,
body sensations are determined by somatosensory input and central nervous predictions …

Peer-to-peer: the social transmission of symptoms online

W Tan, B Pickup, K Faasse, B Colagiuri… - Annals of Behavioral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Social learning can be highly adaptive—for example, avoiding a hotplate your
friend just burnt themselves on—but it has also been implicated in symptom transmission …

One single question is not sufficient to identify individuals with electromagnetic hypersensitivity

R Szemerszky, Z Dömötör… - Clinical Psychology in …, 2019 - cpe.psychopen.eu
Background: Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance attributed to Electromagnetic Fields (IEI-
EMF) is a self-reported condition where non-specific symptoms are attributed to weak non …