
Dr. Helena Hartmann
@helenahhartmann
Neuroscientist, psychologist & science communicator ✨
Pain & expectations in the (social) 🧠
Postdoc @sfb_trr289 💊
Creator of @ScicommFiction.
Now on Bluesky.
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We are proud of this piece related to our science communication project! 🤩 We present a teaching and learning concept addressing placebo and nocebo effects in competency-based communication training. 👩⚕️ The paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39415814/ The project: treatment-expectation.de/projekte-peopl…


📖 Excited to share our new article, out now in eLife - the journal: elifesciences.org/articles/102467 Our annotated readling list on neurodiversity is a result of the collaborative efforts of a fantastic, multidisciplinary & neurodiverse team

📢 Finally! 🎉 The official website for the 5th International Conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies is live! 📅 Join us in Kraków, Poland, June 15–18, 2025, hosted by Uniwersytet Jagielloński! You can now register and submit proposals for symposia, poster presentations, flash talks, and the


New #ScienceandFiction short story will be uploaded in a few days, this time by the fantastic Dr. Alexandrina Guran | @rinaguran.bsky.social 💙 Teaser: 🦞


Just before Christmas, we welcome all new and old early career researchers of the DFG public | @[email protected] #SFB289 that will (continue to) investigate treatment expectations in the next four years 🥳 Welcome to the team & a big hello from us & our speaker Ulrike Bingel Bingel Laboratory (Bingellab)! ❤️


With all these amazing guest contributions, it was about time I wrote another short story for Science & Fiction! 💙



Today some of the CRC's members from Essen are participating in a BIOPAC Systems, Inc. workshop, where we learn all about the different ways of measuring (neuro)physiological data, even during virtual reality! 👩🔬📉





New preprint from my postdoc work SCAN-Unit osf.io/preprints/psya… “Avoiding pain to others motivates effortful prosocial behavior reducing prosocial apathy” w/ Claus Lamm Lei Zhang | 张磊 (@lei-zhang.bsky.social) & Giorgia Silani
