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Placebo effect (disambiguation)

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A placebo effect is the tendency of any medication or treatment, even an inert or ineffective one, to exhibit results simply because the recipient believes that it will work.

Placebo effect may also refer to:

See also

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  • Placebo (disambiguation)
  • Nocebo effect, occurring when negative expectations of the patient regarding a treatment cause the treatment to have a more negative effect than it otherwise would have