Placebo analgesia: a predictive coding perspective.

This Perspective reviews recent findings in placebo hypoalgesia and provides a conceptual account of how expectations and experience can lead to placebo hypoalgesia. In particular, we put forward the idea that the ascending and the descending pain system resembles a recurrent system that allows for...

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Main Authors: Büchel, C, Geuter, S, Sprenger, C, Eippert, F
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Cell Press 2014