Susanne Becker

This study shows that endogenous pain inhibition in humans increases with certainty about action-outcome relationships during a gambling task involving pain relief and punishment.

This study investigates whether placebo expectations affect peripheral nociceptor activity using microneurography in humans, finding fiber-type specific changes in excitability.

This study investigates effort expenditure and brain connectivity in chronic low-back pain patients, finding reduced willingness to pursue high reward tasks and linking this to cortico-striatal connectivity.

This study investigates the neurochemical basis of pain relief modulation, finding that dopaminergic signaling, not opioidergic, enhances relief perception through active decision-making and unpredictability.

This study investigates the relationship between phantom limb pain intensity and generalized hyperalgesia using quantitative sensory testing across multiple body sites.