Placebo analgesia affects brain correlates of error processing.

Placebo analgesia (PA) is accompanied by decreased activity in pain-related brain regions, but also by greater prefrontal cortex (PFC) activation, which has been suggested to reflect increases in top-down cognitive control and regulation of pain. Here we test whether PA is associated with altered pr...

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Main Authors: Leonie Koban, Marcel Brass, Margaret T Lynn, Gilles Pourtois
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23185436/pdf/?tool=EBI