Multiple potential mechanisms for context effects on pain.

Marieke Jepma, Tor D Wager

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Article in Pain, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

Transcranial direct current stimulation of primary motor cortex reduces thermal pain.Pain · 2026
Trial
Mulligan Mobilization Combined with Conventional Therapy vs. Conventional Care Alone in Patients with Rotator Cuff Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025
Review
Agency affects pain inference through prior shift as opposed to likelihood precision modulation in a Bayesian pain model.Neuron · 2023
Article
Placebo Analgesia Does Not Reduce Empathy for Naturalistic Depictions of Others' Pain in a Somatosensory Specific Way.Cerebral cortex communications · 2021
Article
Somatic and vicarious pain are represented by dissociable multivariate brain patterns.eLife · 2016
Article
Facets and mechanisms of adaptive pain behavior: predictive regulation and action.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2013
Review
Transforming Pain With Prosocial Meaning: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.Psychosomatic medicine
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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Response to the commentary "multiple potential mechanisms for context effects on pain".2013
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The importance of context: when relative relief renders pain pleasant.2013

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Marieke JepmaDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder, 345 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, USA Tel.: +1 303 492 4299. University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

Tor D Wager

Funding

The Neural Bases of Placebo Effects and their Relation to Regulatory ProcessesR01MH076136 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI WAGER, TOR D. · 2007 to 2023

$8.5M

fMRI-based Biomarkers for Multiple Components of PainR01DA035484 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI WAGER, TOR D. · 2013 to 2017

$3.1M

Learning to avoid pain: Computational mechanisms and application to methamphetamiR01DA027794 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI WAGER, TOR D. · 2009 to 2013

$1.7M

NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA027794NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA035484NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH076136

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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RewardFemaleHumansMaleNociceptionPeriaqueductal GrayPleasure

Identifiers

PMID23489834

DOI10.1016/j.pain.2013.02.011

PMCPMC4057098

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