hen pain is uncontrollable with the assessment of changes in learning behavior in a between-subject design informed by learned helplessness theory. Methods: In a first phase, a control group (n = 3...

Nature Communications - Control over pain changes how intense it is perceived. Here, the authors show that this effect results from increased expectation precision with control, which changes...

To the Editor Chowdhury et al1 evaluated a biomarker for pain sensitivity, combining peak alpha frequency and corticomotor excitability. The authors report outstanding performance (validation set area...

Neuroscience; Systems neuroscience; Social sciences

AbstractPain, an indicator of potential tissue damage, ideally falls under individual control. Although previous work shows a trend towards reduced pain in contexts where pain is controllable, there i...