Analysis for "The effect of experimental placebo interventions on cerebral pain signature activity – a meta-analysis” by Authors: Matthias Zunhammer1*, Tor Wager2, Ulrike Bingel1 on behalf of the Placebo Imaging Consortium

Affiliations: 1 Department of Neurology, University Hospital Essen, Hufelandstraße 55, 45147 Essen, Germany. 2 Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309.

• Correspondence and requests to: e-mail: [email protected]

Start at A_Run_All_Analyses.m to get an overview of analyses.

Analysis requires: – MATLAB 2016b or newer – SPM12 – CanlabCore (https://github.com/canlab/CanlabCore) – Canlab Private Masks (by Tor Wager) – The SIIPS folders from Canlab Neuroimaging_Pattern_Masks (https://github.com/canlab/Neuroimaging_Pattern_Masks) – MRIcroGL (PASCAL-based program for plotting/rendering images) – The data collected by the Placebo Imaging Collaboration (currently only available for members of the Placebo Imaging Collaboration) (in a folder "Datasets" situated on the same path as the "PlaceboImagingMetaAnalysis" Repository)

Work in progress.