About the Authors

Florian Beissner

beissner.florian@mh-hannover.de

Affiliations Somatosensory and Autonomic Therapy Research, Institute of Neuroradiology, Hannover Medical School, 30625, Hannover, Germany, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, 02129, United States of America

Franziska Brünner

Affiliation Pain & Autonomics – Integrative Research (PAIR), Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, 07743, Jena, Germany

Maria Fink

Affiliation Pain & Autonomics – Integrative Research (PAIR), Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, 07743, Jena, Germany

Karin Meissner

Affiliation Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, 80336, Munich, Germany

Ted J. Kaptchuk

Affiliation Program in Placebo Studies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02215, United States of America

Vitaly Napadow

Affiliations Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, 02129, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Kyunghee University, Yongin, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: F. Beissner. Performed the experiments: F. Brünner MF. Analyzed the data: F. Beissner F. Brünner MF. Wrote the paper: F. Beissner KM TK VN.