Scientists reexamine dopamine’s role in the placebo effect
This system relies on the neurotransmitter dopamine, and the experiment that Bingel and her team document in the paper tested the hypothesis that “dopamine-based reward and learning mechanisms … contribute to placebo effects.
New study challenges dopamine's role in placebo effects and pain relief
New findings argue against a direct causal role for dopamine during the experience of a treatment effect in the establishment of positive treatment expectations and placebo analgesia in healthy volunteers,
Dopamine Not Essential for Placebo Effect in Pain Relief
New research reveals that dopamine is not directly responsible for the formation of placebo analgesia, contrary to previous beliefs.
Pain Relief or Illusion? Surprising Role of Dopamine in Placebo Analgesia
Learn how the recent research challenges the direct role of dopamine in the establishment of positive treatment expectations and placebo analgesia.
Placebo pain relief and positive treatment expectations are not caused by dopamine, researchers find
New findings argue against a direct causal role for dopamine during the experience of a treatment effect in the establishment of positive treatment expectations and placebo analgesia in healthy volunteers,
Pain relief from the placebo effect may not actually involve dopamine
Dopamine was long thought to play a part in the placebo effect for pain relief, but a new study is questioning its true role
The Placebo Effect Is Not Caused by Dopamine
New findings argue against a direct causal role for dopamine during the experience of a treatment effect in the establishment of positive treatment expectations and placebo analgesia in healthy volunt
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