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The Essen lab of our speaker Ulrike Bingel just got a major upgrade 🧡 We absolutely love this huge sign showcasing that we are team #treatmentexpectation!

⭐️ 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…

📢 Join us at the 5th International Conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies (SIPS) in Kraków, June 15-18, 2025! 🌟 Theme: “From the Mechanisms of Placebo Effects to Treatment: Translating Basic Science into Clinical Practice.” 🔗 Call for proposals

Another "In a nutshell" video is uploaded on our YouTube channel! 🤩 This time, Prof. Sigrid Elsenbruch tells us what irritable bowel syndrome has to do with expectations! 😖 German: youtu.be/BYbsRwFp0LE English: youtu.be/6Y5CObDurYI Subscribe: youtube.com/@sfb-trr_289

New podcast out from Kortizes with our CRC speaker Ulrike Bingel Bingel Laboratory (Bingellab)! Learn more about placebo and nocebo effects here 🤔⤵️ open.spotify.com/episode/6mHB1D…

Our emerging PI @AulenkampJana and her colleague Johannes Wessels were interviewed about the pros and cons of open-label placebos 💊 Read it here (in German): aerzteblatt.de/nachrichten/15…

Who else will be in Krakow in June? Of course many of the CRC members will attend this year's Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies conference, organised by Przemysław Bąbel! 🤩

Hot tip: The summer school deadline might be extended to March 1st so people can plan with their accepted abstract submissions 😁 And keep an eye on the website for a more detailed summer school program! ☺️

The tutorial on how to use ARIADNE to make your research life easier is now finally published in AMPPS! 🤩 Read it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25… Check out the tool: igor-biodgps.github.io/ARIADNE/graph/… Supported by IGOR DGPs and Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie (ZPID) ❤️

Our ECR meeting is full of new people from all three sites and getting to know each other! We're so excited to start the second funding period with all of you ❤️

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! 👩‍🔬📉

Two medical doctoral students of the Bingellab, Aoibhne Braunewell (right) and Hannah Gronewold (left), secured two of the competitive ELAN grants! 🤩 From the summer semester 2025 onwards, they will conduct their doctoral projects as part of the lab.

German-speakers, watch out for the ARD TV show "Hier und Heute" today from 16:15 onwards - our speaker Ulrike Bingel will talk about risks and side effects of over-the-counter pain medication. Livestream: ardmediathek.de/live Video: ardmediathek.de/tv-programm/67…

The 2025 Spring Guest Lecture Series at #umson with the partnership of #iasp. Virtually or in person, join us to learn more about placebo, pain, and mental health.

Two of our ECRs, @AulenkampJana and Johannes Wessels were guests in the Pin-Up-Docs podcast. They discussed placebo and nocebo effects with the hosts. Listen to it (in German): pin-up-docs.de/2025/02/19/hau…

Dive into the history, science, philosophy, and ethics of placebo and nocebo. Despite being widely used in medicine, they are often misunderstood. Backed by over 20 years of research and data from 300,000+ patients, Howick clarifies the confusion: tiny.pl/fyq14s60

Who is joining us at this year's Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies conference in Krakow? 🌈 Website: sips2025.eu We are again organising an ECR summer school prior and you can still register until 1.3. sips2025.eu/preconference/… You can also submit a science slam (submissions open 1.3.) 🤩

The nocebo effect appears to work more strongly and more persistently than the placebo effect when it comes to pain, a new study has found. 🧪 Ft. SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation iflscience.com/when-it-comes-…

We’ve been fascinated by brain attractor dynamics lately. Thrilled to share a new preprint on their link to orthogonal neural representations - a collaboration with Karl Friston: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749 With implications for neuroscience & AI. First in a series - stay tuned!

Today I presented my poster on expectation effects on emotional processing across the lifespan at #SIPS2025 in Krakow. Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation