Classical conditioning of analgesic and hyperalgesic pain responses without conscious awareness

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 25, 2015, Pages 7863-7867

  Jensen, Karin ^a,b   Kirsch, Irving ^a   Odmalm, Sara ^b   Kaptchuk, Ted J ^a   Ingvar, Martin ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Awareness; Classical conditioning; Consciousness; Nocebo; Placebo

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERALGESIA; HYPOALGESIA; MALE; NEUROSIS; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANALGESIA; AWARENESS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; PAIN;

EID: 84934984294     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1504567112     Document Type: Article

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