Treatment outcomes are strongly influenced by expectations, as evidenced by the placebo
effect. Meta-analyses of clinical trials reveal that placebo effects are strongest in pain …

Objetivo: El efecto nocebo representa una preocupación creciente en el ámbito clínico. Los
efectos Nocebo ocurren cuando el contexto del tratamiento genera expectativas negativas …

Integrative processing is traditionally believed to be dependent on consciousness. While
earlier studies within the last decade reported many types of integration under subliminal …

Neural networks involved in placebo analgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia processes have
been widely investigated with neuroimaging methods. However, few studies have directly …

Pain is a highly subjective and multidimensional experience, significantly influenced by
various psychological factors. Placebo analgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia exemplify this …

Computational models of associative learning posit that negative prediction errors (PEs)
arising from the omission of aversive outcomes weaken aversive Pavlovian associations …

Placebo effects are strongest in pain, indicating that psychosocial factors directly influence
pain. In this review, I focus on the neural and psychological mechanisms by which …

Expectations affect our physiology and clinical outcomes, however the boundaries for this
modulation are poorly understood. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate minimal …

Calibration of pain stimuli is critical in experimental pain research because it makes it
possible to adjust stimulus intensity to match individual pain sensitivity. Despite its …

Nociceptive processing in the human brain is a signal that enables harm avoidance, with
large interindividual variance. The relative contributions of genes and environment to the …