Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

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

  • Leonie Koban,
  • Marieke Jepma,
  • Marina López-Solà,
  • Tor D. Wager

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11934-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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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.