Well-Loved Music Robustly Relieves Pain: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

• Christine Hsieh ,

  * E-mail: xtine.hsieh@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jian Kong,

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Irving Kirsch,

  Affiliations Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter (PiPS), Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychology, Plymouth University, Plymouth, United Kingdom

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• Robert R. Edwards,

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Karin B. Jensen,

  Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ted J. Kaptchuk,

  Affiliation Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter (PiPS), Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Randy L. Gollub

  Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

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