⭐ And here is this month's webinar! ⭐
Huge thanks again to @sirileknes.bsky.social from
@uio.no for this amazing talk about opioids 💊
Watch the full talk: youtu.be/rRQb2NhDs60
Subscribe to our channel for more cool content surrounding treatment expectations: www.youtube.com/@SFB-TRR_289
Really important to compare empathetic responses to video vs. live interaction when observing pain in others. Nice work
Ausschreibungstext für den DGPA Early Career Award 2026
Are you a DGPA member (or thinking of becoming one 😁) conducting outstanding research in biopsychology, psychophysiology, or neuroscience? Apply now for the 2026 Early Career Award! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
Today we share the next "In a nutshell" video, in which
Christine Knaevelsrud explains what expectations and recovery after surgery have in common! 🏥👩⚕️
German: youtu.be/F8EkcnkZIi0
English: youtu.be/yaFmCfirSNE
We'd be grateful if you comment or leave a like, and subscribe for more content! 🤩
Now she has a german response, as well
Congratulations! Very well deserved
This is cool
Brauchen wir noch einen Podcast?! 🤔
In diesem Fall ist die Antwort klar JA, denn Kommunikation wird im Gesundheitswesen noch viel zu wenig berücksichtigt.
Wir vom #WissKomm Team des @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social haben uns diesem Problem angenommen. Hört mal rein: open.spotify.com/show/4L7oLh3...
Labmeeting! And I am the grateful freerider
Yeah - unser SFB Podcast „Wirkstoff Wort - der Podcast für Gute Kommunikation in der Medizin ist draußen!
Hört mal rein.
Danke an das großartige Public Outreach Team des SFBs!
1/6 Our paper is out today in Nature Communications!
From the SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social we show that temporal expectations shape somatosensory perception - for both painful heat AND non-painful cold stimuli.
Da stimmen wir natürlich zu! 🌟
Ein spannender Artikel mit u.a. @ulrikebingel.bsky.social 👩⚕️
I am so looking forward to #SANS2026 this week! I haven’t been since 2019 & miss my SANS family so much 🥰
Also if you or someone you know is looking for a funded postdoc or postbac, we‘re hiring! FMRI of pain & emotion in the context of a novel drug. Reach out to discuss during the meeting!
I got this, too! Maybe we start a consulting company together
New preprint! w/Tessa Charlesworth & @williambrady.bsky.social:
The Psychology of Algorithmic Bias
We introduce a psychology-centered framework to specify mechanisms through which human behavior interacts dynamically with AI systems to produce algorithmic bias.
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/rxu37_v1
Just out! Expectations modulate stimulus-evoked recurrent, but not feedforward, processing, and this is attention-dependent. NMDA-dependent feedback specifically supports perceptual integration (illusory contours), rather than mediating expectations (base rate). www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1...
🧠 Focused ultrasound changes emotional processing 🔊
In a new study published in Neuron today, we stimulated the human amygdala using transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) and show it plays a causal role in detecting and resolving emotional ambiguity.
"genAI can be used to create podcasts from a paper to teach st-"
Let me stop you right there. Before you feed somebody's paper to a slop machine, invite that somebody to talk to your students about their paper. We're right here. We academics won't shut up about our work, man. 🧪
🧠 What makes threat memories so hard to forget? 🐍😱
Using focused ultrasound we provide causal evidence that the human amygdala drives rapid threat learning 🐍⚡ and determines how resistant those memories become to subsequent extinction 🐍🚫
🆕📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ultrasound stimulation of the amygdala slows threat acquisition and speeds up immediate extinction. Cool to see more TUS applications with neat controls (e.g., hippocampus TUS)
It is so stimulating to be at the #USASP @usasp.bsky.social annual meeting & to be reminded of the big picture & why pain science matters. We didn’t receive approval until after the conference had already started. We do better science when we can collaborate with & learn from our scientific peers.
What are the systems in neuroscience that we really have something that we can call “explanation” at all relevant levels, other than reflexive feed-forward like circuits.
Here are a few that I would argue are getting there. Obviously not complete explanations but genuinely satisfying.
A sketched drawing of one side of the exhibit. Old-fashioned telephones in different colors and a barometer with different texts.
Prototypes for a museum exhibit. A barometer needle and old telephone in black on a white stand.
A sketched drawing of one side of the exhibit. A hand holding a silver-colored pressable button.
A sketched drawing of one side of the exhibit. a 3D-printed square with a lid that can be moved up and down, hiding and revealing text underneath.
🌟 I am both a scientist and a science communicator 🌟
Never have I felt this more than this year, because the wonderful #scicomm team of the @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social is creating their first museum exhibit about treatment expectations for the MS Wissenschaft (@w-i-d.de), a traveling museum boat! 🚢
Thrilled to see this amazing science communication endeavor come to life! Huge thanks to @helenahartmann.com and the @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social SC Team! Don’t miss the MS Wissenschaft when it’s near you!
💥New paper out! Why do some people generalise threat more than others? We show that anxious people generalise more strongly, even after accounting for perceptual mistakes.
A huge (!) thanks to @ondrejzika.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social and @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social
An excellent talk by Sebastien Bouret to develop new ideas about the function of the locus coeruleus!
Serious concerns about a new cortical biomarker for pain sensitivity
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
We (with @tspisak.bsky.social, @christianbuchel.bsky.social) published a commentary on Chowdhury, Bi et al. (2025, JAMA Neurology) raising serious concerns about their reported results.
👇 1/13
Our new study is out in Annals of Neurology! We found that chronic back pain amplifies how the brain processes everyday sounds — and Pain Reprocessing Therapy can start to reverse it.
Panzel, Büchel, Leroux, Wager & Ashar (2026)
doi.org/10.1002/ana....
Huge congratulations to @maithinkx.bsky.social!
Watch the episode with our speaker @ulrikebingel.bsky.social about the placebo effect: share.google/6oY4AoGm9krz...
Or this great one about chronic pain: www.zdf.de/video/shows/...
