Placebo and nocebo effects are defined by opposite opioid and dopaminergic responses.

Scott, David J

Placebo and nocebo effects are defined by opposite opioid and dopaminergic responses. [electronic resource] - Archives of general psychiatry Feb 2008 - 220-31 p. digital

Publication Type: Controlled Clinical Trial; Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

1538-3636

10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2007.34 doi


Adult
Analgesics--therapeutic use
Brain--diagnostic imaging
Brain Mapping
Carbon Radioisotopes
Culture
Female
Fentanyl--analogs & derivatives
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Male
Pain--drug therapy
Pain Measurement
Placebo Effect
Positron-Emission Tomography
Raclopride
Receptors, Dopamine--physiology
Receptors, Dopamine D2--physiology
Receptors, Dopamine D3--physiology
Receptors, Opioid--physiology
Receptors, Opioid, mu--physiology
Synaptic Transmission--physiology