On the importance of placebo timing in rTMS studies for pain relief

Pain

Volumn 152, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1233-1237

  André Obadia, Nathalie ^a,b   Magnin, Michel ^a   Garcia Larrea, Luis ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b HÔPITAL NEUROLOGIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Neuropathic pain; Placebo effect; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; OPIATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NUMERICAL RATING SCALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PLACEBO EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PLACEBO EFFECT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 79956081273     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2010.12.027     Document Type: Article

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