An fMRI study measuring analgesia enhanced by religion as a belief system

Although religious belief is often claimed to help with physical ailments including pain, it is unclear what psychological and neural mechanisms underlie the influence of religious belief on pain. By analogy to other top-down processes of pain modulation we hypothesized that religious belief helps b...

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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteurs: Wiech, K, Farias, M, Kahane, G, Shackel, N, Tiede, W, Tracey, I
Andere auteurs: International Association for the Study of Pain
Formaat: Journal article
Taal:English
Gepubliceerd in: Elsevier 2009
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