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Luana Colloca, MD, PhD

MPower Full Professor, Department of Pain and Translational Symptom Science & Department of Anesthesiology

SCHOOL OF NURSING/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

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Publications

  1. 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
  2. Au Yeung SC, Colagiuri B, Lovibond FP, Colloca L. Partial reinforcement, extinction, and placebo analgesia. Pain 2014;155(6):1110-7
  3. Colloca L. Placebo, nocebo and learning. Handb Exp Pharmacol 2014;225:17-35
  4. Colloca L. Flaten M., Meissner K. Editors. Placebo and Pain: From bench to bedside. Elsevier, Oxford, UK – 2013 – ISBN: 978-0-12-397928-5
  5. Colloca L. Finniss D. Nocebo effects, patient-clinician communication, and therapeutic outcomes. JAMA 2012;307(6):567-8