Representatives from 96 total stories used in the neuroimaging study. Each story was rated for “how much physical pain” the protagonist felt, “how much emotional suffering” the protagonist experienced
The study aimed to test established explanatory models of placebo in an open-label placebo design with healthy participants (N=160) in a standardized experimental heat pain paradigm. In the main study
Animal studies have shown that high-frequency stimulation (HFS) of peripheral C-fibers induces long-term potentiation (LTP) within spinal nociceptive pathways. The aim of this replication study was to
