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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Prif Awduron: Wiech, K, Farias, M, Kahane, G, Shackel, N, Tiede, W, Tracey, I
Awduron Eraill: International Association for the Study of Pain
Fformat: Journal article
Iaith:English
Cyhoeddwyd: Elsevier 2009
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