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Volume 145, Issue 1 , Pages 2-3 , September 2009

Open your mind to placebo conditioning

Received 4 June 2009 ,Accepted 5 June 2009.

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PII: S0304-3959(09)00333-9

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.06.011

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