Somatotopy of placebo analgesia is independent of spatial attention

Journal of Pain Research

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 79-83

  Domnick, Claudia ^a   Lorenz, Jürgen ^b   Hauck, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Placebo analgesia; Somatotopy; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 80755134297     PISSN: 11787090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/JPR.S16610     Document Type: Article

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