Study Provides Deep Dive on the Neuroscience of Placebo Effects

Tor Wager, the Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience and co-leader of the Placebo Neuroimaging Consortium discusses a new meta-analysis that gives the most detailed look yet at the neuroscience of placebo effects!  Read more at Dartmouth News

 

fMRI activity during pain is reduced in the areas shown in blue. Many of these are involved in constructing the experience of pain. Activity is increased in the areas shown in red and yellow, which involve the control of cognition and memory. (Image provided by M.Zunhammer et al.)

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