ArticleCurrent biology : CB2024
Reverse-engineering placebo analgesia.
Article in Current biology : CB, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Top-down control of the descending pain modulatory system drives multimodal placebo analgesia.Neuron · 2026Article
- 40 Hz light flickering alleviates chronic pain via adenosine signaling in the retina-amygdala pathway.Cell research · 2026Article
- Direct comparisons of neural activity during placebo analgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia between humans and rats.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Convergent state-control of endogenous opioid analgesia.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Nerve injury induces pain hypersensitivity and anxiety-related behaviours and is associated with amygdala activation in male mice.PloS one · 2025Article
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Placebo analgesia is a widely observed clinical phenomenon. Establishing a robust mouse model of placebo analgesia is needed for careful dissection of the underpinning circuit mechanisms. However, previous studies failed to observe consistent placebo effects in rodent models of chronic pain. We wondered whether strong placebo analgesia can be reverse engineered using general-anesthesia-activated neurons in the central amygdala (CeA
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