Expectations and positive emotional feelings accompany reductions in ongoing and evoked neuropathic pain following placebo interventions.
Research on placebo analgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia has primarily included healthy subjects or acute pain patients, and it is unknown whether these effects can be obtained in ongoing pain in patients with chronic pain caused by an identifiable nerve injury. Eighteen patients with postthoracotomy n...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2014
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