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Volume 145, Issue 1 , Pages 24-30 , September 2009

Placebo conditioning and placebo analgesia modulate a common brain network during pain anticipation and perception

  • Alison Watson

      Affiliations

    • Human Pain Research Group, University of Manchester Rheumatic Diseases Centre, Hope Hospital, Salford M6 8HD, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 161 206 4529.
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  • Wael El-Deredy

      Affiliations

    • School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Rd., Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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  • Gian Domenico Iannetti

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, OX1 3QX Oxford, UK
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  • Donna Lloyd

      Affiliations

    • School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Rd., Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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  • Irene Tracey

      Affiliations

    • Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Oxford University, Department of Clinical Neurology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
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  • Brent A. Vogt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University and Cingulum NeuroSciences Institute, 750E. Adams Street, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
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  • Valerie Nadeau

      Affiliations

    • Human Pain Research Group, University of Manchester Rheumatic Diseases Centre, Hope Hospital, Salford M6 8HD, UK
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  • Anthony K.P. Jones

      Affiliations

    • Human Pain Research Group, University of Manchester Rheumatic Diseases Centre, Hope Hospital, Salford M6 8HD, UK

Received 13 October 2008 ,Revised 23 January 2009 ,Accepted 6 April 2009.

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PII: S0304-3959(09)00209-7

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.04.003

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