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Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
² Pain Research, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
³ Centre for Prevention of Stroke and Dementia, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

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Sophie W Kjær et al. Pain. 2020 Aug.

. 2020 Aug;161(8):1939-1940.

doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001909.

¹ Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
² Pain Research, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
³ Centre for Prevention of Stroke and Dementia, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

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Neuromodulation: more than a placebo effect?
Kjær SW, Rice ASC, Wartolowska K, Vase L. Kjær SW, et al. Pain. 2020 Mar;161(3):491-495. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001727. Pain. 2020. PMID: 31651581 Review. No abstract available.
Therapeutic benefits of placebo surgery and challenges in neuromodulation research.
Banik RK. Banik RK. Pain. 2020 Aug;161(8):1937-1939. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001910. Pain. 2020. PMID: 32701852 No abstract available.

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