Medical education and distrust modulate the response of insular-cingulate network and ventral striatum in pain diagnosis
Healthcare providers often underestimate patients’ pain, sometimes even when aware of their reports. This could be the effect of experience reducing sensitivity to others pain, or distrust toward patients’ self-evaluations. Across multiple experiments (375 participants), we tested whether senior med...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2021-04-01
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| Series: | eLife |
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| Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/63272 |