I’m guest editing a new BMC Psychiatry Collection on #placebo and #nocebo effects in psychiatry.
We’re looking for work on expectancy mechanisms, communication, and implications for clinical practice + trials.
Details: link.springer.com/collections/...
@sfb-trr-289.bsky.social
Call for papers for a collection on placebo and nocebo effects in psychiatry - excellent! @sipsplacebo.bsky.social @timnicholson.bsky.social @devinterhune.bsky.social @labasedow.bsky.social @bnpa.bsky.social @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social
A quick update for SIPS 2027: We’ve extended the deadline for Topical Session submissions by one week to 22 March 2026, 11:59pm UTC.
A reminder that submissions for all other formats open on 1 April 2026.
See www.sips2027.com/submissions for more info!
#placebo #nocebo
The A02 researchers will also be featured in the documentary by Eckart von Hirschhausen about pain! 🤩
More info: presse.wdr.de/plounge/tv/d...
Watch it in German from 3.10. onwards in the ARD Mediathek:
www.ardmediathek.de/tv-programm/...
⭐ GIVEAWAY! ⭐
We are giving away 3 signed copies of the non-fiction book from our CRC! 📚
In „Dein Körper glaubt dir alles – Wie der #Placebo-Effekt die Gesundheit stärkt“, Prof. Ulrike Bingel and Prof. Sven Benson explain how patients can use the power of #expectations to improve their health. 💪
Exactly two weeks ago, the 5th International Conference of @sipsplacebo.bsky.social at @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social & @filozoficznyuj.bsky.social came to a close!
4 keynotes, 12 plenaries, 8 symposia (24 talks), 16 flash talks, 7 science slams, 109 posters, 8 highlights!
#SIPS2025 #SIPSplacebo2025
The Welcome Reception of the 5th International Conference of @sipsplacebo.bsky.social took place in the very heart of @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social — the historic Collegium Maius.
We enjoyed a breathtaking performance by the Choir In Kontakt, led by Wassim Ibrahim.
#SIPS2025 #SIPSplacebo2025
Can we study placebo effects in rodents? At the @sipsplacebo.bsky.social ECR Summer School in Kraków, Poland, I was proposing that we can do so by using ultrasonic vocalizations as a key element of the anticipatory response. Thanks for the great round table discussions, @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social!
🗓️ Save the Date! 🧠
The 12th #IBRO World Congress of #Neuroscience is heading to Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 from 13–16 September 2027! Mark your calendar and join us for an unforgettable #meeting!
#IBRO2027 #IBROinAfrica #CapeTown #SouthAfrica
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Huge thanks to my amazing Pain Research Group from @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social @filozoficznyuj.bsky.social for all the hard work and dedication in organizing the 5th International Conference of @sipsplacebo.bsky.social — couldn’t have done it without you! 💪🧠👏 #SIPS2025 #SIPSplacebo2025
Great talk by Magdalena Żegleń at the 5th International Conference of @sipsplacebo.bsky.social! Former postdoc in my lab, she presented our data on placebo and nocebo effects in weight loss and fitness interventions. #SIPS2025 #SIPSplacebo20205 #SIPSKrakow2025
Out now in JAMA:
Together with Meike Shedden Mora and Winfried Rief @rief01.bsky.social , we share four evidence-supported communication strategies to help health care professionals improve patient expectations—and thereby enhance treatment outcomes.
#MedTwitter #Psychology
Back from a stunning @sipsplacebo.bsky.social at Jagiellonian Uni 🇵🇱 thank you @PrzemyslawBabel — 5th Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies conf since we founded it in 2014
Pre-conf workshop w/ Ben Colagiuri ✅
Plenary on GenAI + placebo/nocebo ✅
Reunited w/ the placebo family ❤️
Neue Publikation:
Nocebo-Effekte sind bei gesunden Personen stärker und anhaltender als Placebo-Effekte.
Placebo- und Nocebo-Effekte veranschaulichen den tiefgreifenden Einfluss kognitiv-affektiver Prozesse auf die Symptomwahrnehmung und die Behandlungsergebnisse und können das Ansprechen..
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another fun SIPS over already! glad to see so many talks with a focus on nocebo reduction/inoculation. stay tuned for more on the ECR network and SIPS 2027 prep 👀👀👀 #SIPS2025 #SIPSplacebo2025
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@placebosydney.bsky.social
Had a great time at @sipsplacebo.bsky.social 2025 w/ my supervisor @devinterhune.bsky.social 🥳 i presented two meta-analyses on responsiveness to verbal suggestions (REVS) in #placebo and #nocebo responding & one experiment looking at suggestion effects & REVS in placebo #psychedelic responding.
Thank you! It was truly great to host you in Krakow — thanks so much for your involvement, energy, and collaboration. You were amazing! 🙌 #SIPS2025 #SIPSplacebo2025 #SIPSKrakow2025
We thank @przemekbabel.bsky.social, his great team, and @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social for an inspiring, outstanding and perfectly organized conference in the beautiful city of Krakow! #SIPSplacebo2025 We enjoyed the talks, networking, food and music🥳
🎉 Stefanie Meeuwis, who used to be a postdoc in my lab, has just received the @sipsplacebo.bsky.social Early Career Award! Huge congratulations – so well deserved! 👏🥳
Huge congratulations to Frederik Schlitt (A17), Sven Polifka (A15), Christopher Milde (A04/Z02), & our associated CRC member @jlaferton.bsky.social for winning @sipsplacebo.bsky.social poster prizes! ✨
We definitely (re)presented great research at this year's #SIPSplacebo2025 conference! 😁
Thank you to @przemekbabel.bsky.social and the organising comittee for a great #SIPS2025 #SIPSplacebo2025. As was announced at the closing ceremony, we'll be hosting SIPS 2027 in Sydney, Australia!
Follow us for updates, news, and more! ⭐️
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We can't wait to hear who of our fantastic slammers has won this year's #scienceslam at @sipsplacebo.bsky.social!!! 😱
Not much longer now...
#SIPSplacebo2025
What's next? 4 interesting flash talks bevor the lunch break... stay for networking during lunch and the closing ceremony with the announcement of awards and the next conference!
@sipsplacebo.bsky.social #SIPSplacebo2025
Four more posters from my lab were presented during Day 3 and the second poster session of the 5th International Conference of @sipsplacebo.bsky.social — great work by Helena Bieniek, Daryna Rubanets, Amelia Jankowska, and Wiktor Zieliński! 👏🧠📊 #SIPS2025 #SIPSplacebo2025 #SIPSKrakow2025
SIPS snippet #1:
Ulrike Bingel from our @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social talking in the first plenary session of the SIPS conference in beautiful Krakow, presenting our work - no effect of dopamine pharmacomodulation on experimental placebo hypoalgesia.
#SIPSplacebo2025
Really happy to be able to present my Poster regarding placebo-induced psychedelic effects at #SIPSplacebo2025
Funded by the @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social
This is so cool, @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social!
Participation helps us ask better questions, make knowledge accessible, and connect science to real-world political debates. Exactly the collaboration that is missing in many fields of science. We need more of that… @sipsplacebo.bsky.social
... followed by plenary talks by Keith Petrie @keithpetrie.bsky.social, Charlotte Blease @crblease.bsky.social, and Katia Mattarozzi about the translation of placebo/nocebo effects for real-world problems. Find the whole program here:
sips2025.eu/program/conf...
Good morning to the last day of the SIPS Conference #SIPSplacebo2025 @sipsplacebo.bsky.social. We start at 9am with a keynote lecture about placebos in VR research:
We are so excited to welcome three people with lived experiences from our CRC's patient advisory board to @sipsplacebo.bsky.social #SIPSplacebo2025!
PAB-members: Dorothea Fell, Sonja Arens and Oliver Vorthmann ✨
Thanks to everyone who stopped by our poster and asked questions ❤️