Is placebo analgesia for heat pain a sensory effect? An exploratory study on minimizing the influence of response bias

We explored the ongoing question of whether placebo analgesia alters afferent nociceptive processing in a novel paradigm designed to minimize the role of response bias in placebo measurement. First, healthy adult participants received a standard heat placebo induction and conditioning procedure usin...

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Main Authors: Laura K. Case, Claire M. Laubacher, Emily A. Richards, Matthew Grossman, Lauren Y. Atlas, Scott Parker, M. Catherine Bushnell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-01-01
Series:Neurobiology of Pain
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452073X18300151