The Effect of Treatment Expectation on Drug Efficacy: Imaging the Analgesic Benefit of the Opioid Remifentanil
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Authors
Ulrike Bingel
Ulrike Bingel•Markus Ploner•Irene Tracey
Published
February 16, 2011
Abstract
An individual’s expectation that a pain treatment will or will not work can alter both its subjective effectiveness and the pain-related activity in the brain.