Placebo and opioid analgesia-- imaging a shared neuronal network

Predrag Petrovic1, Eija Kalso, Karl Magnus Petersson

  • 1Cognitive Neurophysiology Research Group, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm 171 76, Sweden., Pain Clinic, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Helsinki University Hospital, Finland.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|February 9, 2002
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