Articles by
Alex Langford, Simon Wessely
Breaking news: Can the media make you sick?
By
Alex Langford, Simon Wessely
The most likely cause of nocebic symptoms is the misattribution of normal and common physical sensations to infrasound. This further heightens monitoring for such sensations, creating a vicious cycle of somatisation. Illuminatingly, people less symptoms if they cannot see a wind turbine from their property compared to people who can, even if they live closer to one [8], presumably because they lack the constant visual reminder to screen themselves for symptoms and attribute them accordingly.