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1Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|October 8, 2024
Abstract:
Placebo analgesia is well documented in human populations but remains relatively under-researched in rodent models. Now researchers have engineered robust circuit-based placebo analgesia in mice and identified pathways mediating the effect of expectations, offering new insights into harnessing placebo for pain management.
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