The Effect of Treatment Expectation on Drug Efficacy: Imaging the Analgesic Benefit of the Opioid Remifentanil
Bingel U., Wanigasekera V., Wiech K., Ni Mhuircheartaigh R., Lee MC., Ploner M., Tracey I.
An individual’s expectation that a pain treatment will or will not work can alter both its subjective effectiveness and the pain-related activity in the brain.