Expectation and treatment context can alter bodily experience through measurable placebo and nocebo pathways, including changes in pain experience and pain-related brain activity.

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Finniss and colleagues review placebo effects as psychobiological events shaped by therapeutic context. Wager et al. report placebo-related changes in pain experience and pain-related brain activity. Benedetti and colleagues review nocebo mechanisms in which negative expectation can worsen symptoms such as pain.

These sources do not show that belief controls physiology at will, that expectation can override material conditions, or that placebo/nocebo mechanisms generalize identically across every symptom and disease.

The record supports the chapter’s feedback-loop claim while explicitly rejecting magical-control interpretations of mindset.

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