Editorial: Placebo and Nocebo Effects in Psychiatry and Beyond

Katja Weimer¹, Paul Enck², Seetal Dodd^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm, Germany.
² Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
³ The Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia.
⁴ Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
⁵ Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
⁶ University Hospital Geelong, Barwon Health, Geelong, VIC, Australia.
⁷ Department of Pain and Translational Symptom Science, School of Nursing, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States.
⁸ Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States.
⁹ Center to Advance Chronic Pain Research, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States.

Editorial

Katja Weimer et al. Front Psychiatry. 2020.

. 2020 Aug 7:11:801.

doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00801. eCollection 2020.

Katja Weimer¹, Paul Enck², Seetal Dodd^{3

4

5

6}, Luana Colloca^{7

8

9}

¹ Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm, Germany.
² Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
³ The Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia.
⁴ Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
⁵ Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
⁶ University Hospital Geelong, Barwon Health, Geelong, VIC, Australia.
⁷ Department of Pain and Translational Symptom Science, School of Nursing, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States.
⁸ Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States.
⁹ Center to Advance Chronic Pain Research, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States.

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Keywords: conditioning; expectancy; learning; nocebo effect; placebo effect; psychiatry; psychotherapy.

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Editorial on the Research TopicPlacebo and Nocebo Effects in Psychiatry and Beyond

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