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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Những tác giả chính: Wiech, K, Farias, M, Kahane, G, Shackel, N, Tiede, W, Tracey, I
Tác giả khác: International Association for the Study of Pain
Định dạng: Journal article
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Elsevier 2009
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