Expectations and anxiety as mediators of placebo effects in pain

Pain

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 225-226

  Wager, Tor D ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG; NALOXONE; PLACEBO;

ANALGESIA; ANXIETY; BAYES THEOREM; DRUG EFFECT; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; IRRITABLE COLON; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RATING SCALE;

ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HUMANS; PAIN; PLACEBO EFFECT;

EID: 19444377577     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2005.03.018     Document Type: Editorial

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