Pain anticipation: An activation likelihood estimation meta‐analysis of brain imaging studies

The anticipation of pain has been investigated in a variety of brain imaging studies. Importantly, today there is no clear overall picture of the areas that are involved in different studies and the exact role of these regions in pain expectation remains especially unexploited. To address this issue, we used activation likelihood estimation meta‐analysis to analyze pain anticipation in several neuroimaging studies. A total of 19 functional...