Different brain networks mediate the effects of social and conditioned expectations on pain

Our experience of pain can be affected by our expectations about how much pain we will feel. Here, the authors show that both social information-driven expectations, and those based on personal experience, are both able to modulate pain, but by different neural pathways.

Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Leonie Koban, Marieke Jepma, Marina López-Solà, Tor D. Wager
Format: article
Langue:EN
Publié: Nature Portfolio 2019
Sujets:
Q
Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/ad9f1b263e964d63b39e58b8e1013a1a
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
Description
Résumé:Our experience of pain can be affected by our expectations about how much pain we will feel. Here, the authors show that both social information-driven expectations, and those based on personal experience, are both able to modulate pain, but by different neural pathways.