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Luana Colloca^{1

2

3}, Paul Enck⁴, David DeGrazia^{5

6}

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¹ Department of Pain Translational Symptom Science, School of Nursing, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA.
² Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA.
³ Center to Advance Chronic Pain Research, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine VI: Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
⁵ Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
⁶ Department of Philosophy, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.

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Luana Colloca et al. Pain. 2017 Feb.

. 2017 Feb;158(2):361-362.

doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000757.

Luana Colloca^{1

2

3}, Paul Enck⁴, David DeGrazia^{5

6}

¹ Department of Pain Translational Symptom Science, School of Nursing, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA.
² Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA.
³ Center to Advance Chronic Pain Research, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine VI: Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
⁵ Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
⁶ Department of Philosophy, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.

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Relieving pain using dose-extending placebos: a scoping review.
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