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.

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Main Authors: Leonie Koban, Marieke Jepma, Marina López-Solà, Tor D. Wager
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/ad9f1b263e964d63b39e58b8e1013a1a
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Summary: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.