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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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Cell Press
2014
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