lessebo

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Introduction

when a clinical trial setting involves use of a placebo, patients' expectation of a negative outcome caused by the potential for receiving the placebo is referred to as the 'lessebo effect'

More general terms

References

  1. Mestre TA et al. Another face of placebo: The lessebo effect in Parkinson disease
    meta-analyses. Neurology. March 21, 2014 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24658930 <Internet> http://www.neurology.org/content/early/2014/03/21/WNL.0000000000000340.abstract