• Lern- und Gedächtnisprozesse im Kontext von Schmerz
• Einfluss von Entzündung auf Lern- und Gedächtnisprozesse
• Placebo- und Noceboeffekte im Kontext von Schmerz

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Pawlik RJ, Petrakova L, Cueillette A, Krawczyk K, Theysohn N, Elsenbruch S, Engler H. Inflammation shapes neural processing of interoceptive fear predictors during extinction learning in healthy humans. Brain Behav Immun. 2023 Feb;108:328-339. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2022.12.010. Epub 2022 Dec 17. PMID: 36535608.

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