Date: Monday, March 25, 2024, 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., Eastern (US) Time
This webinar is being produced through a collaboration of the IASP’s Pain and Placebo Special Interest Group and the University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA – in particular – the University of Maryland School of Nursing’s Placebo Beyond Opinions Center and the University of Maryland’s Center to Advance Chronic Pain Research. All three groups are aligned on advancing unbiased knowledge of placebo effects by promoting interdisciplinary investigation of the placebo phenomenon and nurturing placebo research.
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The IASP defines pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage” to better articulate the biopsychosocial dimensions of this phenomenon. While our understanding of pain has greatly evolved over the past decades, there are still fundamental questions that need to be addressed, including its psychological components.
Once such psychological component that has been discussed since the 17th century is the concept of embodiment – or the interplay between body and mind in behavior. Embodiment provides the body something to “incarnate,” i.e., emotions/feelings can be direct perceptions of one’s body state. Join us as we explore this concept of embodiment and its relation to how we perceive body awareness and pain. The webinar will feature:
- Christopher Eccleston, PhD, University of Bath, UK
- Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, University of Maryland School of Nursing, USA (host)
About the Presenter
Christopher Eccleston, PhD, is professor of pain science at the University of Bath in the UK, where he directs the Center for Pain Research. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific publications and is widely cited (web of science h-index of 84). Chris founded and directed the Bath Pain Management Unit from 1994 to 2008, including the first residential pediatric pain program. He consults internationally on new services and team training in pain management. From 2009 to 2019 he was psychology editor for the journal PAIN, and coordinating editor of Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care Cochrane Review Group (PaPaS). Chris has published three books with Oxford University Press: In 2016 he published Embodied: The Psychology of Physical Perception. In 2018 he co-edited an analysis of investments in pain treatment in 37 European countries, in the book European Pain Management. In 2020, working with Dr. Elaine Wainwright, he published Work and Pain: A Lifespan Development Approach. Visit his website to learn more.
About the Host
Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, is an NIH-funded physician-scientist who conducted ground-breaking studies that have advanced scientific understanding of the psychoneurobiological bases of endogenous systems for pain modulation in humans, including the discovery that the vasopressin system is involved in the enhancement of placebo effects with a dimorphic effect. Currently, her team conducts basic and translational research on genomics of orofacial chronic pain, brain mechanisms of expectancy – and observationally induced hypoalgesia – and immersive virtual reality. Her research has been published in top-ranked international journals including Biological Psychiatry, Pain, Nature Neuroscience, JAMA, Lancet Neurology, Science, and NEJM. The impact of her innovative work is clear from her outstanding publications, citation rate, numerous invited lectures worldwide, and media featured by The National Geographic, The New Scientist, Washington Post, Boston Globe, The New Yorker, Nature, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and News and World Reports.