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Affiliations

¹ Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
² School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
³ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States.
⁴ Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.

Niklas Noe-Steinmüller et al. Pain. 2025.

. 2025 Jan 1;166(1):222.

doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003423. Epub 2024 Oct 15.

¹ Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
² School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
³ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States.
⁴ Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.

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