Faculty Member Profiles

Yang Wang

Assistant Professor, Department of Pain and Translational Symptoms Science
SCHOOL OF NURSING

Research Interests

• Placebo Hypoalgeisa
• Social Observation Learning
• Expectancy Induced Analgesia
• psychological determinants in the formation and extinction of placebo analgesia in chronic pain population

Publications

1. Colloca L, Raghuraman N*, Wang Y*, Akintola T, Brawn-Cinani B, Colloca G, Kier C, Varshney A, Murthi S. Virtual reality: physiological and behavioral mechanisms to increase individual pain tolerance limits. Pain. 2020 Sep 1;161(9):2010-21.
2. Colloca L, Akintola T, Haycock NR, Blasini M, Thomas S, Phillips J, Corsi N, Schenk LA, Wang Y. Prior Therapeutic Experiences, Not Expectation Ratings, Predict Placebo Effects: An Experimental Study in Chronic Pain and Healthy Participants. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 2020 Jun 3:1-8.
3. Olson EM, Akintola T, Phillips J, Blasini M, Haycock NR, Martinez PE, Greenspan JD, Dorsey SG, Wang Y, Colloca L. Effects of sex on placebo effects in chronic pain participants: a cross-sectional study. Pain. 2020 Aug 17.
4. Okusogu C*, Wang Y*, Akintola T, Haycock NR, Raghuraman N, Greenspan JD, Phillips J, Dorsey SG, Campbell CM, Colloca L. Placebo hypoalgesia: racial differences. Pain. 2020 Aug 1;161(8):1872-83.
5. Wang Y, Liu Y, Gozli D, Xiang YT, Jackson T. The N2pc Component as a Neural Index of Early Attention Allocation among Adults with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain. European Journal of Pain. 2020 May 7.
6. Wang, Y*., Tricou, C*., Raghuraman, N., Akintola, T., Haycock, N., Blasini, M., ... & Colloca, L. (2020). Modeling learning patterns to predict placebo analgesic effects in healthy and chronic pain participants. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 39. (IMPACT FACTOR: 3.532).
7. Raghuraman, N*., Wang, Y.*, Schenk, L. A., Furman, A. J., Tricou, C., Seminowicz, D. A., & Colloca, L. (2019). Neural and behavioral changes driven by observationally-induced hypoalgesia. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1-13. (IMPACT FACTOR: 4.122)
8. Colloca, L., Wang, Y., Martinez, P. E., Chang, Y. P. C., Ryan, K. A., Hodgkinson, C., ... & Dorsey, S. G. (2019). OPRM1 rs1799971, COMT rs4680, and FAAH rs324420 genes interact with placebo procedures to induce hypoalgesia. Pain, 160(8), 1824-1834. (IMPACT FACTOR: 6.029)
9. Wang, Y., Liu, Z., Chen, S., Ye, X., Xie, W., Hu, C., ... & Jackson, T. (2018). Identifying at-risk subgroups for acute postsurgical pain: a classification tree analysis. Pain Medicine, 19(11), 2283-2295. (IMPACT FACTOR: 782)
10. Jackson, T., Su, L., & Wang, Y. (2018). Effects of higher versus lower threat contexts on pain-related visual attention biases: an eye-tracking study of chronic pain. The Journal of Pain, 19(6), 649-659. (IMPACT FACTOR: 4.519)
11. Jackson, T., Su, L., & Wang, Y. (2018). Effects of higher versus lower threat contexts on pain‐related attention biases: An eye‐tracking study. European Journal of Pain, 22(6), 1113-1123. (IMPACT FACTOR:188)
12. Chen, S., Pu, J., Ye, X., Wang, Y., & Jackson, T. (2018). Factor structure, correlates, and incremental validity of the Pain Appraisal Inventory-Short Form. Journal of health psychology, 1359105317753716. (IMPACT FACTOR:272)
13. Wang, Y., Liu, Z., Chen, S., Ye, X., Xie, W., Hu, C., Iezzi, T., & Jackson, T. (2018). Pre-surgery pain beliefs as predictors of acute and chronic post-surgical pain. International Journal of Surgery, 52, 55-60. (IMPACT FACTOR: 3.158)
14. Lui, J. H., Wang, Y., & Jackson, T. (2017). Towards explaining relationship dissatisfaction in Chinese dating couples: Relationship disillusionment, emergent distress, or insecure attachment style? Personality & Individual Differences, 112, 42-48. (IMPACT FACTOR: 967)
15. Wang, Y., Jackson, T., & Cai, L. (2016). Causal effects of threat and challenge appraisals on coping and pain perception. European Journal of Pain,20(7), 1111-1120. (IMPACT FACTOR:188)
16. Jackson, T., Tian, P., Wang, Y., Iezzi, T., & Xie, W. (2016). Toward identifying moderators of associations between pre-surgery emotional distress and postoperative pain outcomes: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.The Journal of Pain, 17(8), 874-888. (IMPACT FACTOR: 4.519)
17. Jackson, T.*, Wang, Y.*, & Fan, H. (2014). Associations between pain appraisals and pain outcomes: meta-analyses of laboratory pain and chronic pain literatures.The Journal of Pain, 15(6), 586–601. (IMPACT FACTOR: 4.519)
18. Jackson, T., Wang, Y., Wang, Y., & Fan, H. (2014). Self-efficacy and chronic pain outcomes: a meta-analytic review.The Journal of Pain, 15(8), 800-814. (IMPACT FACTOR: 4.519)
19. Gao, X., Li, X., Yang, X., Wang, Y., Jackson, T., & Chen, H. (2013). I can’t stop looking at them: interactive effects of body mass index and weight dissatisfaction on attention towards body shape photographs. Body Image,10(2), 191-199. (IMPACT FACTOR: 2.926)

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