Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Meta-analysis of neural systems underlying placebo analgesia from individual participant fMRI data

  • Matthias Zunhammer,
  • Tamás Spisák,
  • Tor D. Wager,
  • Ulrike Bingel,
  • The Placebo Imaging Consortium

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21179-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The neural mechanisms of placebo analgesia are not fully understood. Here the authors conducted a large scale meta-analysis of individual data from fMRI studies of pain and placebo conditions.