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Perceived treatment group affects behavioral and neural responses to visceral pain in a deceptive placebo study
Neurogastroenterology & Motility, 07/16/2012
Kotsis V et al. – Perceived treatment constitutes an important aspect in placebo analgesia. A more refined understanding of individual treatment expectations and perceived treatment allocation has multiple implications for the design and interpretation of clinical trials and experimental studies on placebo and nocebo effects.