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  Placebo effects on the neurologic pain signature: A meta-analysis of individual participant functional magnetic resonance imaging data

Zunhammer, M., Bingel, U., Wager, T. D., Placebo Imaging Consortium, Atlas, L., Benedetti, F., et al. (2018). Placebo effects on the neurologic pain signature: A meta-analysis of individual participant functional magnetic resonance imaging data. JAMA Neurology, 75(11), 1321-1330. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2018.2017.

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Zunhammer, Matthias 1, Author
Bingel, Ulrike 1, Author
Wager, Tor D. 2, Author
Placebo Imaging Consortium, Author              
Atlas, Lauren1, Author
Benedetti, Fabrizio 1, Author
Büchel, Christian 1, Author
Choi, Jae Chan 1, Author
Colloca, Luana1, Author
Duzzi, Davide 1, Author
Eippert, Falk1, Author           
Ellingsen, Dan-Mikael 1, Author
Elsenbruch, Sigrid 1, Author
Geuter, Stephan1, Author
Gollub, Randy 1, Author
Kaptchuk, Ted J. 1, Author
Kessner, Simon S.1, Author
Kirsch, Irving 1, Author
Kong, Jian1, Author
Lamm, Claus 1, Author
Leknes, Siri1, AuthorMüllner-Huber, Alexa 1, AuthorLui, Fausta 1, AuthorPorro, Carlo A. 1, AuthorRütgen, Markus 1, AuthorSchenk, Lieven1, AuthorSchmid, Julia 1, AuthorTheysohn, Nina 1, AuthorTracey, Irene 1, AuthorWrobel, Nathalie 1, AuthorZeidan, Fadel 1, Author more..
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1Clinic for Neurology, University Hospital Essen, Germany, ou_persistent22              
2Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA, ou_persistent22              

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 Abstract: Importance Placebo effects reduce pain and contribute to clinical analgesia, but after decades of research, it remains unclear whether placebo treatments mainly affect nociceptive processes or other processes associated with pain evaluation.

Objective We conducted a systematic, participant-level meta-analysis to test the effect of placebo treatments on pain-associated functional neuroimaging responses in the neurologic pain signature (NPS), a multivariate brain pattern tracking nociceptive pain.

Data Sources Medline (PubMed) was searched from inception to May 2015; the search was augmented with results from previous meta-analyses and expert recommendations.

Study Selection Eligible studies were original investigations that were published in English in peer-reviewed journals and that involved functional neuroimaging of the human brain with evoked pain delivered under stimulus intensity-matched placebo and control conditions. The authors of all eligible studies were contacted and asked to provide single-participant data.

Data Extraction and Synthesis Data were collected between December 2015 and November 2017 following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses of individual participant data guidelines. Results were summarized across participants and studies in a random-effects model.

Main Outcomes and Measures The main, a priori outcome was NPS response; pain reports were assessed as a secondary outcome.

Results We obtained data from 20 of 28 identified eligible studies, resulting in a total sample size of 603 healthy individuals. The NPS responses to painful stimulation compared with baseline conditions were positive in 575 participants (95.4%), with a very large effect size (g = 2.30 [95% CI, 1.92 to 2.69]), confirming its sensitivity to nociceptive pain in this sample. Placebo treatments showed significant behavioral outcomes on pain ratings in 17 of 20 studies (85%) and in the combined sample (g = −0.66 [95% CI, −0.80 to −0.53]). However, placebo effects on the NPS response were significant in only 3 of 20 studies (15%) and were very small in the combined sample (g = −0.08 [95% CI, −0.15 to −0.01]). Similarly, analyses restricted to studies with low risk of bias (g = −0.07 [95% CI, −0.15 to 0.00]) indicated very small effects, and analyses of just placebo responders (g = −0.22 [95% CI, −0.34 to −0.11]) indicated small effects, as well.

Conclusions and Relevance Placebo treatments have moderate analgesic effects on pain reports. The very small effects on NPS, a validated measure that tracks levels of nociceptive pain, indicate that placebo treatments affect pain via brain mechanisms largely independent of effects on bottom-up nociceptive processing.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2018-05-012018-07-302018-11
 Publication Status: Issued
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 Rev. Type: Peer
 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2018.2017
PMID: 30073258
PMC: PMC6248115
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Project name : Erwartungen und Konditionierung als Basisprozesse der Placebo- und Nocebo-Reaktion: Von der Neurobiologie zur klinischen Anwendung / FOR 1328
Grant ID : FOR 1328
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Funding organization : German Research Foundation (DFG)
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Funding organization : Mercator Research Center Ruhr (MERCUR)
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Grant ID : R01 MH076136; R01 DA035484
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Funding organization : National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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Title: JAMA Neurology
  Abbreviation : JAMA Neurol
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Publ. Info: Chicago, Ill. : American Medical Association
Pages: - Volume / Issue: 75 (11) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 1321 - 1330 Identifier: Other: 2168-6157
CoNE: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/journals/resource/2168-6157