Placebo Imaging Consortium

An international consortium to foster the understanding of the placebo-effect with neuroimaing.

Since 2015

This website is under construction

Consortium Leaders

Ulrike Bingel, Tor Wager, Matthias Zunhammer, Tamas Spisak

Consortium Members

Lauren Atlas, PhD, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland

Fabrizio Benedetti, MD, University of Turin, Turin, Italy and Plateau Rosà Labs, Plateau Rosà, Switzerland

Christian Büchel, MD, University Medical Center Hamburg–Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Jae Chan Choi, MD, PhD, Yonsei University, Wonju, South Korea

Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland

Davide Duzzi, PhD, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

Falk Eippert, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

Dan-Mikael Ellingsen, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sigrid Elsenbruch, PhD, Essen University Hospital, Essen, Germany

Stephan Geuter, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

Ted J. Kaptchuk, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Simon S. Kessner, MD, University Medical Center Hamburg–Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Irving Kirsch, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Jian Kong, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Claus Lamm, PhD, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Siri Leknes, PhD, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Alexa Müllner-Huber, PhD, PhD, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Fausta Lui, MD, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

Carlo A. Porro, MD, PhD, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

Markus Rütgen, PhD, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Lieven A. Schenk, PhD, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Julia Schmid, PhD, Essen University Hospital, Essen, Germany

Nina Theysohn, MD, Essen University Hospital, Essen, Germany

Irene Tracey, PhD, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Nathalie Wrobel, PhD, Karolinska Institute, Solna, Sweden

Fadel Zeidan, PhD, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Publications

Zunhammer M, Bingel U, Wager TD, Placebo Imaging Consortium. Placebo effects on the neurologic pain signature: a meta-analysis of individual participant functional magnetic resonance imaging data. JAMA neurology. 2018 Nov 1;75(11):1321-30. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2018.2017

Zunhammer M, Bingel U, Wager TD, Placebo Imaging Consortium. Laterality and Stimulation Bias in Meta-analysis of Placebo Responses—Reply. JAMA neurology. 2019 May 20. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2019.1232

Zunhammer M, Spisák T, Wager TD, Bingel U., Placebo Imaging Consortium. Meta-analysis of neural systems underlying placebo analgesia from individual participant fMRI data. Nature communications. 2021 Mar 2;12(1):1-1. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21179-3