Is placebo analgesia mediated by endogenous opioids? A systematic review
- 1 June 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Pain
- Vol. 76 (3) , 273-275
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0304-3959(98)00057-8
Abstract
This systematic review assesses six experimental studies into the mechanism of placebo analgesia in human subjects suffering from clinical pain or experimentally induced ischaemic arm pain. Due to their sophisticated designs, these studies probably provide the best evidence that placebo analKeywords
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