University of Maryland Baltimore
Baltimore, MD, United States
Dr. Luana Colloca leads an NIH-funded team at University of Maryland investigating the placebo/nocebo effect, how expectancy shapes pain response, social learning and pain. Dr. Colloca holds an MD, a master degree in Bioethics and a PhD in Neuroscience. She completed a post-doc training at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden and a senior research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA.
Dr. Colloca uses an integrative approach including psychopharmacological, psychobiological, brain mapping and behavioral approaches to pain research. Her research has been published in top-ranked international journals including Biological Psychiatry, Pain, JAMA, NEJM and Lancet Neurology. Her research has raised interest giving more than 180 invited talks and has been featured on The National Geographic, The New Scientist, Washington Post, Science daily, Boston Globe, The New Yorker, Nature, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, News and World Reports and USA Today. Dr. Colloca received several prestigious awards including the Wall Patrick International Award for basic research on pain mechanisms by the International Association for Study of Pain (IASP).
Nonconventional Treatment Considerations: Harnessing the Placebo Effect
Saturday, November 11, 2023
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM PT
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose
