descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 04 Mar 2005 English Publisher:American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)Journal:Science, volume 307, pages 1,411-1,412 (issn: 0036-8075, eissn: 1095-9203,

Authors: Kristopher J L, Irizarry; Julio, Licinio;

doi: 10.1126/science.307.5714.1411

pmid: 15746411

An Explanation for the Placebo Effect?

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Abstract

The elegant computational model of addiction described by A. D. Redish in his Report “Addiction as a computational process gone awry” (10 Dec. 2004, p. [1944][1]) has the potential to provide an explanation for the placebo effect. In the temporal-difference reinforcement learning model (TDRL),

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Keywords

Reward, Substance-Related Disorders, Dopamine, Models, Neurological, Humans, Learning, Cues, Placebo Effect, Reinforcement, Psychology, Synaptic Transmission

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