Sentence examples for verbal suggestion from inspiring English sources

Previous neuroimaging research showed that a disgust placebo (inert pill presented with the verbal suggestion of disgust relief) reduced visual cortex activation during the viewing of disgust-inducing images.

Similarly, Colloca et al. [36] observed a reduction in the N2 P2 amplitude in the absence of a reduction in the laser pain rating in a cohort of normal subjects subjected to the placebo effect by verbal suggestion.

Eno directed the musicians by using body language and dancing, as well as through verbal suggestion, to influence their playing and the sounds they would emit.

Verbal suggestion was usually combined with electric stimuli producing feeling and movement in an anaesthetic and paralysed limb.

Benedetti and colleagues [ 50] showed that administration of an inert substance coupled with a negative verbal suggestion upregulates the HPA axis.

41 Distractions with or without verbal suggestion, breathing methods, hypnosis, and combined cognitive behavioral techniques have shown some efficacy (albeit limited and not always statistically significant) in children and adolescents for the reduction of injection-associated pain and anxiety.

There is increasing evidence that verbal suggestions accompanying placebo interventions can alter autonomic functions.

When comparing nocebo effects, induced by verbal suggestions, results were more pronounced for itch than for pain.

In part 1, the role of verbal suggestions in inducing nocebo effects on itch and pain was investigated.

In conclusion, we showed for the first time that nocebo and possibly placebo responses can be induced on itch by verbal suggestions.

In this pilot study, we investigated the effects of sham acupuncture point stimulation and verbal suggestions on visually-induced nausea in a female population.