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. 2019 Mar 4;13:160. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00160

Table 4.

Nocebo experiments reporting sex in healthy volunteers either by verbal induction or conditioning of the response (data in part from Vambheim and Flaten, 2017, supplemented by further studies).

Reference No (Fem) Method Condition Condition Sex
Swider and Babel, 2013 84 (42) Conditioning Pain Noc F > M
Aslaksen et al., 2015 111 (76) Verbal Pain Noc F > M
Klosterhalfen et al., 2009 (1) 48 (24) Conditioning Nausea Noc F > M
Faasse et al., 2015 82 (51) Conditioning AE Noc F > M
Lorber et al., 2007 86 (51) Conditioning AE Noc F > M
Elsenbruch et al., 2019 60 (30) Verbal Visceral pain Noc F = M
Stumpf et al., 2016 100 (50) Verbal Itch Noc F = M
Klosterhalfen et al., 2009 (2) 48 (24) Verbal Nausea Noc M > F

No (Fem), Total number of volunteers included (number of females); Intervention, Placebo (Pla), nocebo (Noc); Sex, M = males, F = Females; AE, Adverse events.