Editor’s note: At the 2018 World Congress on Pain, the biennial meeting of the International Association for the Study of Pain, researchers from around the world gathered to discuss the latest pain research. In this Pain 101 podcast, which was recorded at the World Congress, Natalie Osborne, a PhD student at Krembil Research Institute, University of Toronto, Canada, interviews Tor Wager, a professor of psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Wager, who in July 2019 will join the faculty of Dartmouth College as the Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience, discusses all things placebo, including what brain imaging has revealed about placebo analgesia, the role of prior experience and expectations in the placebo response, and much more. (A PDF transcript is available below the podcast.)
Podcast music credit—Artist: Geographer. Track: “Bright Idea,” from YouTube Audio Library.