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"

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