Can placebo challenge test (inducing a "nocebo effect") be a suitable model to assess stress-induced bronchial obstruction? Suggestions from the multidisciplinary Working Groups "Stress-Asthma" and "AAIITO Regione Campania"

Affiliations

• ¹ Postgraduate School of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
• ² Department of Experimental Medicine, Unit of Respiratory Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
• ³ Division of Pulmonology, S. Corona Hospital, Pietra Ligure, Savona, Italy.
• ⁴ Department of Clinical and Molecular Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy.
• ⁵ Allergy Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Ospedali Riuniti di Ancona, Ancona, Italy.
• ⁶ Psychologist.
• ⁷ Department of Biomedical Science, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy.
• ⁸ Allergy Unit, High Speciality San Giuseppe Moscati Hospital, Avellino, Italy.
• ⁹ Allergy and Clinical Immunology, G. Fucito Hospital and University Hospital, Salerno, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Allergy Unit, ASL (Sanitary District n°12), Caserta, Italy.
• ¹¹ ASL (Sanitary District), Avellino, Italy.
• ¹² Unit of Allergology, Division of Internal Medicine, Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Benevento, Italy.
• ¹³ Division of Neurophysiology, A. Cardarelli Hospital, Naples, Italy.
• ¹⁴ Postgraduate School of Internal Medicine, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy.