Luana Colloca, MD, PhD
Luana Colloca, MD, PhD
MPower Full Professor, Department of Pain and Translational Symptom Science & Department of Anesthesiology
SCHOOL OF NURSING/SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Research interests
Learning mechanisms underlying human pain modulation
Expectations and social influences on hypoalgesia
Neurophysiological mechanisms of placebo and nocebo effects
Sex and age influences on pain modulation
Ethical and translational aspects of placebo and nocebo effects
Research approaches
Pain phenotyping
Brain mapping
Computational models
Behavioral and neurophysiological measurements
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6503-4709
Publications
- Simmons K, Ortiz R, Kosswsky J, Krummenacher P, Grillon C, Pine D, Colloca L. Pain and Placebo in Pediatrics: A comprehensive review of laboratory and clinical findings. Pain 2014
- Au Yeung SC, Colagiuri B, Lovibond FP, Colloca L. Partial reinforcement, extinction, and placebo analgesia. Pain 2014;155(6):1110-7
- Colloca L. Placebo, nocebo and learning. Handb Exp Pharmacol 2014;225:17-35
- Colloca L. Flaten M., Meissner K. Editors. Placebo and Pain: From bench to bedside. Elsevier, Oxford, UK – 2013 – ISBN: 978-0-12-397928-5
- Colloca L. Finniss D. Nocebo effects, patient-clinician communication, and therapeutic outcomes. JAMA 2012;307(6):567-8