A Bayesian perspective on sensory and cognitive integration in pain perception and placebo analgesia.

The placebo effect is a component of any response to a treatment (effective or inert), but we still ignore why it exists. We propose that placebo analgesia is a facet of pain perception, others being the modulating effects of emotions, cognition and past experience, and we suggest that a computation...

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Main Authors: Davide Anchisi, Marco Zanon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4321992?pdf=render