Dopamine has no direct causal role in the formation of treatment expectations and placebo analgesia in humans

• Angelika Kunkel ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AK and LA contributed equally to this work as first authors.

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University Medicine Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8303-8693

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• Livia Asan ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AK and LA contributed equally to this work as first authors.

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University Medicine Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Isabel Krüger,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University Medicine Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Clara Erfurt,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University Medicine Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Laura Ruhnau,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University Medicine Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Elif Buse Caliskan,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University Medicine Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Jana Hackert,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University Medicine Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Katja Wiech,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University Medicine Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Functional Neuroimaging, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Katharina Schmidt,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University Medicine Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Ulrike Bingel

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Ulrike.Bingel@uk-essen.de

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), University Medicine Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9528-3204

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