Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, MS
Interim Co-Director, UMB Center to Advance Chronic Pain Research
Interim Chair, Pain and Translational Symptom Science
Director, Placebo Beyond Opinions Center
Professor
SCHOOL OF NURSING and SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Research Interests
- Learning mechanisms underlying human pain modulation
- Expectations and social influences on hypoalgesia
- Neurophysiological mechanisms of placebo and nocebo effects
- Sex and age influences on pain modulation
- Ethical and translational aspects of placebo and nocebo effects
Research Approaches
- Pain phenotyping
- Brain mapping
- Computational models
- Behavioral and neurophysiological measurements
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6503-4709
Publications
- Simmons K, Ortiz R, Kosswsky J, Krummenacher P, Grillon C, Pine D, Colloca L. Pain and Placebo in Pediatrics: A comprehensive review of laboratory and clinical findings. Pain 2014
- Au Yeung SC, Colagiuri B, Lovibond FP, Colloca L. Partial reinforcement, extinction, and placebo analgesia. Pain 2014;155(6):1110-7
- Colloca L. Placebo, nocebo and learning. Handb Exp Pharmacol 2014;225:17-35
- Colloca L. Flaten M., Meissner K. Editors. Placebo and Pain: From bench to bedside. Elsevier, Oxford, UK – 2013 – ISBN: 978-0-12-397928-5
- Colloca L. Finniss D. Nocebo effects, patient-clinician communication, and therapeutic outcomes. JAMA 2012;307(6):567-8
