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

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

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2019-09-01

Deskripsi

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.