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Doubling Your Payoff: Winning Pain Relief Engages Endogenous Pain Inhibition

Susanne Becker, Wiebke Gandhi, Saskia Kwan, Alysha-Karima Ahmed and Petra Schweinhardt
eNeuro 25 August 2015, 2 (4) ENEURO.0029-15.2015; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0029-15.2015
Susanne Becker
1Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C7, Canada
2Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C7, Canada
3Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
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1Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C7, Canada
2Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C7, Canada
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Saskia Kwan
1Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C7, Canada
2Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C7, Canada
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1Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C7, Canada
2Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C7, Canada
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Petra Schweinhardt
1Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C7, Canada
4Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C7, Canada
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Susanne Becker, Wiebke Gandhi, Saskia Kwan, Alysha-Karima Ahmed, Petra Schweinhardt
eNeuro 25 August 2015, 2 (4) ENEURO.0029-15.2015; DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0029-15.2015

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