Placebo analgesia: Friend or foe?

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Current Rheumatology Reports

• Publication date

  2006-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1007/S11926-006-0035-1PMID 17092440
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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