Imaging the placebo response: A neurofunctional review

@article{Faria2008ImagingTP,
  title={Imaging the placebo response: A neurofunctional review},
  author={Vanda Faria and Mats Fredrikson and Tomas Furmark},
  journal={European Neuropsychopharmacology},
  year={2008},
  volume={18},
  pages={473-485}
}
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Mechanisms of the placebo effect in pain and psychiatric disorders
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In patients with psychiatric illnesses such as anxiety disorders or depression, a vast overlap in neurological changes is observed in drug responders and placebo responders supporting the role of serotonergic networks in placebo response.
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Role of central neurophysiological systems in placebo analgesia and their relationships with cognitive processes mediating placebo responding
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This article presents an explanatory cognitive model of placebo analgesia, centered on expectation of pain relief, and presents direct and indirect evidence for the psychological and physiological drivers and downstream mediators of the effects of expectation on reduction in pain.
The placebo response in pain and depression: in search of a common pathway.
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This paper presents a distillation of research reported on areas of the brain shown to be involved in either placebo analgesia or mood response, in an effort to identify a common "placebo pathway" between mood and pain.
Amygdala Subregions Tied to SSRI and Placebo Response in Patients with Social Anxiety Disorder
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New insights are provided into the brain dynamics underlying anxiety relief by demonstrating common amygdala targets for pharmacologically and psychologically induced anxiety reduction, and by showing that the amygdala is functionally heterogeneous in anxiolysis.
The Functional Role of Large-scale Brain Network Coordination in Placebo-induced Anxiolysis.
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The functional role of the rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC) is analyzed in coordinating placebo-dependent cue-related and cue-unrelated network activity and appears to be crucially involved in exerting a tonically dampening control over salience-responsive structures.
Placebo analgesia enhances descending pain-related effective connectivity: a dynamic causal modeling study of endogenous pain modulation.
Placebos and Nocebos in Migraine: Children and Adolescents
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Migraine is presented as a model to investigate the impact of placebo andNocebo responsivity, a summary of placebo (and nocebo) in the pediatric migraine population is provided, and a few suggestions related to the process, the utility, and the ethics of introducing placebo and managingnocebo into the pediatric clinic are offered.
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