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How expectations influence pain
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Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States Address: 755 Euclid Ave, Berkeley, CA 94708, United States. Tel.: 510 919 2886. E-mail address: [email protected] (H.L. Fields). Sponsorships or competing interests that may be relevant to content are disclosed at the end of this article.
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- Authors
- Fields, H. L.
- Affiliations
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Corresponding author
- Fields, Howard L.
- ORCID
- Fields, Howard L.
- Venue
- Pain
- Published
- 2018-09
- Volume
- 159
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- S3-S10
- ISSN
- 0304-3959 (ISSN-L)
- 1872-6623
- OpenAlex
- W2886720387
- Cited by
- 175
- References
- 62
- Citations by year
- 2026: 35 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 1.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- escholarship.org
- Locations
- Pain (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine › Pain Management and Treatment
- Keywords
- pain anticipation, placebo effect, pain perception
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Motivation, Pain, Pain Perception
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