A Bayesian perspective on sensory and cognitive integration in pain perception and placebo analgesia.
The placebo effect is a component of any response to a treatment (effective or inert), but we still ignore why it exists.We propose that placebo Mule Tape Halters analgesia is a facet of pain perception, others being the modulating effects of emotions, cognition and past experience, and we suggest that a computational understanding of pain may prov