Sentence examples for conscious expectations from inspiring English sources

Therefore, it may be anticipated that open-label placebos, which cause the patient to expect an inert intervention, will not induce the same level of conscious expectations in a patient as a deceptive placebo.

Amanzio and Benedetti (1999) reported that conscious expectations of pain relief were associated with placebo effects that were naloxone reversible but that placebo effects induced by conditioning with a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, without conscious expectations of an analgesic response, were not naloxone reversible.

We cannot know how much the increase in VAP following surveillance interruption was due to the change in surveillance personnel and different subjective assessments (perhaps influenced by sub conscious expectations) versus a bona fide rise in invasive pneumonias.

Until recently, theories concerning placebo and nocebo (negative placebo) mechanisms had a strong emphasis on conscious expectations (Kirsch et al. 2004), suggesting that higher-order areas of the brain process the predictive cues associated with pain relief (Wager et al. 2004; Petrovic et al. 2010).

Interestingly, all primary care physicians emphasised the role of patients' positive expectations, but none mentioned that conditioning is also an important factor, as the current main theory suggests: The placebo effect is perceived on the basis of unconscious conditioning and conscious expectations [ 13].

Hence, it is possible that conscious expectation of pain relief, often reflected in the lateral prefrontal cortex, is not necessary to activate the more archaic OFC in response to conditioned placebo cues.

may underlie this beneficial influence on the psychosomatic symptoms through psychological mechanisms involving expectation and conscious anticipation [21, 22].

Moreover, the visceral framing of smaller beverages makes conscious the expectations we bring to restaurants.

Obama is conscious of those expectations.

And so, as an actor, you're more conscious of those expectations, and it necessarily feels less personal.

International student recruiters have had to be very conscious of student expectations of service and the very real competition that exists for international students from both within the UK and worldwide, well before they joined our institution.