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Yeng Wang

Yang Wang

Yang Wang

Assistant Professor, Department of Pain and Translational Symptoms Science

School of Nursing

Research interests

Placebo Hypoalgeisa

Social Observation Learning

Expectancy Induced Analgesia 

psychological determinants in the formation and extinction of placebo analgesia in chronic pain population

Publications

  1. Colloca L, Raghuraman N*, Wang Y*, Akintola T, Brawn-Cinani B, Colloca G, Kier C, Varshney A, Murthi S. Virtual reality: physiological and behavioral mechanisms to increase individual pain tolerance limits. Pain. 2020 Sep 1;161(9):2010-21.
  2. Colloca L, Akintola T, Haycock NR, Blasini M, Thomas S, Phillips J, Corsi N, Schenk LA, Wang Y. Prior Therapeutic Experiences, Not Expectation Ratings, Predict Placebo Effects: An Experimental Study in Chronic Pain and Healthy Participants. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 2020 Jun 3:1-8.
  3. Olson EM, Akintola T, Phillips J, Blasini M, Haycock NR, Martinez PE, Greenspan JD, Dorsey SG, Wang Y, Colloca L. Effects of sex on placebo effects in chronic pain participants: a cross-sectional study. Pain. 2020 Aug 17.
  4. Okusogu C*, Wang Y*, Akintola T, Haycock NR, Raghuraman N, Greenspan JD, Phillips J, Dorsey SG, Campbell CM, Colloca L. Placebo hypoalgesia: racial differences. Pain. 2020 Aug 1;161(8):1872-83.
  5. Wang Y, Liu Y, Gozli D, Xiang YT, Jackson T. The N2pc Component as a Neural Index of Early Attention Allocation among Adults with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain. European Journal of Pain. 2020 May 7.
  6. Wang, Y*., Tricou, C*., Raghuraman, N., Akintola, T., Haycock, N., Blasini, M., ... & Colloca, L. (2020). Modeling learning patterns to predict placebo analgesic effects in healthy and chronic pain participants. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 39. (IMPACT FACTOR: 3.532).
  7. Raghuraman, N*., Wang, Y.*, Schenk, L. A., Furman, A. J., Tricou, C., Seminowicz, D. A., & Colloca, L. (2019). Neural and behavioral changes driven by observationally-induced hypoalgesia. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1-13. (IMPACT FACTOR: 4.122)
  8. Colloca, L., Wang, Y., Martinez, P. E., Chang, Y. P. C., Ryan, K. A., Hodgkinson, C., ... & Dorsey, S. G. (2019). OPRM1 rs1799971, COMT rs4680, and FAAH rs324420 genes interact with placebo procedures to induce hypoalgesia. Pain, 160(8), 1824-1834. (IMPACT FACTOR: 6.029)
  9. Wang, Y., Liu, Z., Chen, S., Ye, X., Xie, W., Hu, C., ... & Jackson, T. (2018). Identifying at-risk subgroups for acute postsurgical pain: a classification tree analysis. Pain Medicine, 19(11), 2283-2295. (IMPACT FACTOR: 782)
  10. Jackson, T., Su, L., & Wang, Y. (2018). Effects of higher versus lower threat contexts on pain-related visual attention biases: an eye-tracking study of chronic pain. The Journal of Pain, 19(6), 649-659. (IMPACT FACTOR: 4.519)
  11. Jackson, T., Su, L., & Wang, Y. (2018). Effects of higher versus lower threat contexts on pain‐related attention biases: An eye‐tracking study. European Journal of Pain, 22(6), 1113-1123. (IMPACT FACTOR:188)
  12. Chen, S., Pu, J., Ye, X., Wang, Y., & Jackson, T. (2018). Factor structure, correlates, and incremental validity of the Pain Appraisal Inventory-Short Form. Journal of health psychology, 1359105317753716. (IMPACT FACTOR:272)
  13. Wang, Y., Liu, Z., Chen, S., Ye, X., Xie, W., Hu, C., Iezzi, T., & Jackson, T. (2018). Pre-surgery pain beliefs as predictors of acute and chronic post-surgical pain. International Journal of Surgery, 52, 55-60. (IMPACT FACTOR: 3.158)
  14. Lui, J. H., Wang, Y., & Jackson, T. (2017). Towards explaining relationship dissatisfaction in Chinese dating couples: Relationship disillusionment, emergent distress, or insecure attachment style? Personality & Individual Differences, 112, 42-48. (IMPACT FACTOR: 967)
  15. Wang, Y., Jackson, T., & Cai, L. (2016). Causal effects of threat and challenge appraisals on coping and pain perception. European Journal of Pain,20(7), 1111-1120. (IMPACT FACTOR:188)
  16. Jackson, T., Tian, P., Wang, Y., Iezzi, T., & Xie, W. (2016). Toward identifying moderators of associations between pre-surgery emotional distress and postoperative pain outcomes: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.The Journal of Pain, 17(8), 874-888. (IMPACT FACTOR: 4.519)
  17. Jackson, T.*, Wang, Y.*, & Fan, H. (2014). Associations between pain appraisals and pain outcomes: meta-analyses of laboratory pain and chronic pain literatures.The Journal of Pain, 15(6), 586–601. (IMPACT FACTOR: 4.519)
  18. Jackson, T., Wang, Y., Wang, Y., & Fan, H. (2014). Self-efficacy and chronic pain outcomes: a meta-analytic review.The Journal of Pain, 15(8), 800-814. (IMPACT FACTOR: 4.519)
  19. Gao, X., Li, X., Yang, X., Wang, Y., Jackson, T., & Chen, H. (2013). I can’t stop looking at them: interactive effects of body mass index and weight dissatisfaction on attention towards body shape photographs. Body Image,10(2), 191-199. (IMPACT FACTOR: 2.926)
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