Topical review: Placebo responses and therapeutic responses. How are they related?

Journal of Oral and Facial Pain and Headache

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 93-107

  Greene, Charles S ^a   Goddard, Greg ^b   Macaluso, Guido M ^c   Mauro, Giovanni ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Brain imaging; Expectancy; Oral splints; Placebo effect; TMD

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; FACE PAIN; HUMAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACEBO EFFECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FACIAL PAIN; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; OCCLUSAL SPLINTS; PLACEBO EFFECT;

EID: 67949109679     PISSN: 23330384     EISSN: 23330376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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