Placebo and Nocebo Run on the Same Formula — Just Pointed in Opposite Directions — Overview

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Placebo and nocebo aren't opposite curiosities — they're the same neurobiological mechanism pointed in different directions, verified by naloxone-reversible analgesia, sham-surgery trials, and an open-label placebo study where patients knew they were taking a placebo and it still worked. Through the ODTOE lens, both are direct predictions of one postulate: outcome probability is a power function of the observer's coherence, B.