Placebo/Nocebo: A Two-Sided Coin in the Clinician's Hand

Clinical Pain Management: A Practical Guide

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 42-48

  Pollo, Antonella ^a,b   Benedetti, Fabrizio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b National Institute of Neuroscience   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Expectation; Nocebo; Pain; Palliative care; Placebo

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862871142     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444329711.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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