Emotion and the prefrontal cortex: An integrative review.

ML Dixon, R Thiruchselvam, R Todd… - Psychological …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a critical role in the generation and regulation of emotion.
However, we lack an integrative framework for understanding how different emotion-related …

[HTML][HTML] The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in acute and chronic pain

DA Seminowicz, M Moayedi - The journal of pain, 2017 - Elsevier
The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is a functionally and structurally heterogeneous
region and a key node of several brain networks, implicated in cognitive, affective, and …

The neuroscience of placebo effects: connecting context, learning and health

TD Wager, LY Atlas - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
Placebo effects are beneficial effects that are attributable to the brain–mind responses to the
context in which a treatment is delivered rather than to the specific actions of the drug. They …

Neocortical circuits in pain and pain relief

LL Tan, R Kuner - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
The sensory, associative and limbic neocortical structures play a critical role in sha**
incoming noxious inputs to generate variable pain perceptions. Technological advances in …

Mindfulness meditation-based pain relief employs different neural mechanisms than placebo and sham mindfulness meditation-induced analgesia

F Zeidan, NM Emerson, SR Farris, JN Ray… - Journal of …, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
Mindfulness meditation reduces pain in experimental and clinical settings. However, it
remains unknown whether mindfulness meditation engages pain-relieving mechanisms …

What is this thing called pain?

CJ Woolf - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2010 - Am Soc Clin Investig
To paraphrase Cole Porter's famous 1926 song,“What is this thing called pain? This funny
thing called pain, just who can solve its mystery?” Pain, like love, is all consuming: when you …

Brain mechanisms supporting the modulation of pain by mindfulness meditation

F Zeidan, KT Martucci, RA Kraft, NS Gordon… - Journal of …, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
The subjective experience of one's environment is constructed by interactions among
sensory, cognitive, and affective processes. For centuries, meditation has been thought to …

Clinical relevance of contextual factors as triggers of placebo and nocebo effects in musculoskeletal pain

G Rossettini, E Carlino, M Testa - BMC musculoskeletal disorders, 2018 - Springer
Placebo and nocebo effects are embodied psycho-neurobiological responses capable of
modulating pain and producing changes at different neurobiological, body at perceptual and …

Context matters: the psychoneurobiological determinants of placebo, nocebo and context-related effects in physiotherapy

G Rossettini, EM Camerone, E Carlino… - Archives of …, 2020 - Springer
Background Placebo and nocebo effects embody psychoneurobiological phenomena where
behavioural, neurophysiological, perceptive and cognitive changes occur during the …

Reconceptualizing anhedonia: novel perspectives on balancing the pleasure networks in the human brain

K Rømer Thomsen, PC Whybrow… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Anhedonia, the lack of pleasure, has been shown to be a critical feature of a range of
psychiatric disorders. Yet, it is currently measured primarily through subjective self-reports …