Placebo Analgesia Changes Alpha Oscillations Induced by Tonic Muscle Pain: EEG Frequency Analysis Including Data during Pain Evaluation

Placebo exhibits beneficial effects on pain perception in human experimental studies. Most of these studies demonstrate that placebo significantly decreased neural activities in pain modulatory brain regions and pain-evoked potentials. This study examined placebo analgesia-related effects on spontan...

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Main Authors: Linling Li, Hui Wang, Xijie Ke, Xiaowu Liu, Yuan Yuan, Deren Zhang, Donglin Xiong, Yunhai Qiu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2016.00045/full