See you in Darwin soon Australian Pain Soc for #aps2024. Looking forward to catching up with Louise Sharpe A/Prof Tasha Stanton and others

#auspainsoc So excited to be chairing a session focused on Navugating funding opportunities and grant writing- Meeting room 3 Michele Sterling Aidan Cashin nik.veldhuis Prof Ben Colagiuri

Original: Rooney et al (USYD Psychology) explored influence of attention bias on nocebo hyperalgesia —Conditioning to nocebo hyperalgesia mediated by negative expectancy via anticipatory anxiety Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Nocebo hyperalgesia can be socially transmitted through a chain of observers. Differences in interpersonal physiological and psychological synchrony predicted subsequent socially-acquired pain. Sydney Placebo Lab Prof Ben Colagiuri nature.com/articles/s4427…

NEW PAPER ALERT!! Hats off to PhD student Tessa Rooney and dream team Prof Ben Colagiuri Jemma Todd Dimitri VanRyckeghem @GeertCrombez Are novel approaches to cognitive bias modification for attention efficacious? What novel approaches show most promise? A 🧵 👇🏿 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our (Sydney Placebo Lab) latest paper led by Biya Tang published in PAIN Journal shows that #choice attenuates, not diminishes conditioned #nocebo effects. We hypothesised the opposite, which is why I love doing research! journals.lww.com/pain/abstract/…

👏 University of Sydney has ranked 2nd in Australia in the 2024 U.S. News & World Report Subject rankings! @sydney_science has ranked top 50 globally across the following disciplines: 🏆 32nd for Microbiology Sydney Uni Life&Env 🏆 43rd for Agriculture Sydney Agriculture 🏆 44th for Psychiatry/psychology USYD Psychology

#PhD candidates get paid LESS than minimum wage in Aus (and face major cost of living pressures) PhD's contribute enormously to society and the economy. We should recognise and support this #AcademicTwitter #auspol Sign this to raise the stipend aph.gov.au/e-petitions/pe…

Congratulations Prof. Haryana Dhillon on being nominated as an Outstanding Mentor of Researchers!

See you soon IASP #WC2024!!! Looking forward to presenting some os the our Sydney Placebo Lab latest #pain #placebo and #nocebo research

T - 1hr until my IASP #WC2024 topical workshop with tor wager and Bingel Laboratory (Bingellab) We'll be talking about what we've learned about #placebos in the last 50 years Be there or be...in the no treatment group (sorry for the dad joke 🤓) Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies

Day 3 of IASP #WC2024 and we have Winston Tan presenting his poster exploring how the model-observer relationship influences social learning of the nocebo effect 🤔🫂 🪧 WE476 | 9:30 - 11:00am

Honoured to receive the Patrick D Wall prize and speak abour our Sydney Placebo Lab recent work on social transmitted #nocebo effects in the final plenary session of #WC2024 IASP at 12.45 today

Our new MA by #CSaunders & Winston Tan on socially-induced #nocebo effects Surprising me: social nocebo as strong as conditioned nocebo (but k=4 for this comparison so caution required) Sydney Placebo Lab Louise Sharpe A/Prof Kate Faasse #KBarnes Health Psychology Review tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Want something to do for #MentalHealthMonth in Oct? Join us USYD Psychology University of Sydney for a free panel discussion on #MentalHealth in the Digital Age Hosted by The Chaser's Julian Morrow & feat. Jasmine Fardouly, Dr Rebecca Pinkus, @DrAJCampbell, and Mark Dadds sydney.edu.au/science/news-a…

⭐️ We're hosting the 2025 Australian Placebo Nocebo Symposium on 14 Feb! ⭐️ This one-day program will showcase advances in #placebo and #nocebo research and build collaborative networks between researchers and clinicians. To submit an abstract/register: eventbrite.com.au/e/2025-austral…

Reminder about the first Australian #Placebo #Nocebo Symposium A/Prof Kate Faasse and I are organising next Friday with WRief and Luana Colloca Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies Still time to register!

Original: Drs. Rooney, Prof Ben Colagiuri & col. found that Virtual Reality-based Attention Bias Modification shifted pain-related attention biases w/out reducing nocebo hyperalgesia or pain expectancy Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

⭐️ PhD candidate Cosette Saunders wrote a great article for The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand discussing the #nocebo effect and how it's relevant to you (e.g., it can be socially transmitted to you through the social media platform you're using right now)! 🤕USYD Psychology theconversation.com/you-can-catch-…

Building on her recent article, PhD Candidate Cosette Saunders just spoke to James O'Loghlin about the #nocebo effect on ABC Australia radio! USYD Psychology Listen to a snippet of it below! 📻 ✨