When in Pain, Gloomy Outlook Proves True (2 of 3) (IMAGE)

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When in Pain, Gloomy Outlook Proves True (2 of 3)

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This shows brain activation to painful stimulation. BOLD responses to painful heat stimulation in the first run (saline application) only. For a complete list of brain areas, see table S1. The images are thresholded at P < 0.05 corrected. Color bar indicates t score. This image is figure 3 from the paper. This image relates the Perspective by Gollub et al. that appeared in the Feb. 16, 2011, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Ulrike Bingel of University of Oxford in Oxford, UK and colleagues, was titled, “The Effect of Treatment Expectation on Drug Efficacy: Imaging the Analgesic Benefit of the Opioid Remifentanil.”

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