- Docente: Katia Mattarozzi
- Credits: 2
- SSD: M-PSI/01
- Language: English
- Moduli: Katia Mattarozzi (Modulo 1) Katia Mattarozzi (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 9210)
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/welcome
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/welcome
Office hours
See the website of Katia Mattarozzi