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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Main Authors: Wiech, K, Farias, M, Kahane, G, Shackel, N, Tiede, W, Tracey, I
其他作者: International Association for the Study of Pain
格式: Journal article
語言:English
出版: Elsevier 2009
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