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An fMRI study measuring analgesia enhanced by religion as a belief system

  • Katja Wiech

      Affiliations

    • Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
    • Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB Centre), Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB Centre), Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK. Tel.: +44 1865 22488; fax: +44 1865 222717.
    • ,
  • Miguel Farias

      Affiliations

    • Ian Ramsey Centre, Theology Faculty, University of Oxford, Bevington Road, Oxford OX2 6NB, UK
    • Psychology and Religion Research Group, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9BS, UK
    • ,
  • Guy Kahane

      Affiliations

    • Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    • ,
  • Nicholas Shackel

      Affiliations

    • Oxford Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    • ,
  • Wiebke Tiede

      Affiliations

    • Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB Centre), Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
    • ,
  • Irene Tracey

      Affiliations

    • Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
    • Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB Centre), Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK

Received 13 April 2008 ,Revised 23 June 2008 ,Accepted 23 July 2008.

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PII: S0304-3959(08)00421-1

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2008.07.030

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