B6190 - Effetti Placebo e Nocebo: dai meccanismi psico-neurobiologici agli outcomes clinici

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 5908)

Learning outcomes

Understand the fundamental concepts underlying placebo and nocebo effects (i.e., placebo procedure; placebo effect/response; placebo mechanisms); and analyze the psychological and neurobiological mechanisms through which placebo and nocebo effects occur (i.e. individual learning, expectations, beliefs and charactherists, healthcare providers expectations, beliefs and charactherists, context, interpersonal and treatment characteristics, biological correlates). Analyze the clinical implications and the Clinical Trials

Course contents

1. History and concepts

2. Assessment of placebo/nocebo effects

3. Placebo/nocebo mechanisms

4. Application of placebos

5. Optimizing placebo effects

6. Minimizing nocebo effects

7. Open- vs. deceptive placebos

8. Ethics and critical evaluation

Readings/Bibliography

https://eduonplacebo.unibo.it/

Teaching methods

Frontal Lecture

Role Playing

Debate

Group exercises aimed at deepening and facilitating learnings on the role of expectations on clinical outcomes

Rewriting treatment information sheets

Assessment methods

Group Activities Results and Discussion

Teaching tools

https://eduonplacebo.unibo.it/

Office hours

See the website of Katia Mattarozzi