In case you missed it, we have a bilingual video series called 🥜 "In a nutshell" 🥜 In this series, our scientists explain what their work has to do with expectations, what new research found, & what patients can do to feel better. Here they are all in a thread for you to browse & watch! ⤵️

While we're talking about podcasts... @ulrikebingel.bsky.social talked to the folks at ACHILLES RUNNING how to use placebo effects during running training 🏃 Watch/listen (in German): www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFEc...

Today and tomorrow we have a few posters from the CRC at #OHBM2026! 🧠 ▶️ #2066 from Jialin Li on "Beyond pain: a brain-based signature predicts individual pain relief" ▶️ #2234 from @ggallitto.bsky.social on "External validation of machine-learning models - registered models & adaptive splitting"

Our first Impact Factor is 3.0 — an important milestone for a new journal. As with most new journals, the first IF is affected by the smaller publication volume in the launch year. Latest citation data are encouraging, and the journal’s IF is set to rise in 2027.

3️⃣ "From catastrophizing to catalyzing: does pain catastrophizing modulate the beneficial impact of open-label placebos for chronic low back pain?" by Elif Caliskan, Katharina Schmidt, Andreas Hellmann, @tspisak.bsky.social, @ulrikebingel.bsky.social & @julkleibo.bsky.social doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

4️⃣ "The association between test anxiety, learning strategies, and open-label placebo effects on academic test performance" by Elisa Frisaldi, @julkleibo.bsky.social, @helenahartmann.com, Sven Benson, @ulrikebingel.bsky.social & Katharina Schmidt doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

Wie können unsere Erwartungen Medikamente wirksamer machen? Die Neurologin Prof. @ulrikebingel.bsky.social @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social erklärt, wie unsere "innere Apotheke" für den Behandlungserfolg genutzt werden kann. #MedizinDerZukunft: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l1SL…

Thanks to @dfg.de for interviewing our speaker @ulrikebingel.bsky.social about this very important topic: How expectations can make treatments work better (or worse)! Video in German: youtu.be/5l1SLadf1ec?...

Translation rocks! Congrats to @stefaniebrassen.bsky.social and team from @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social for her recent work on expectation responsiveness and longterm treatment trajectories in major depression published in Translational Psychiatry. www.clearskyscience.com/en/10.1038/s...

What an inspiring day focussing on Translation in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience! Thanks to Sigrid Elsenbruch, Dirk Scheele and Adriane Icenhour for bringing us together and the great talks and discussions. So glad to have such amazing colleages nearby and in our Network!

After the lunch break, our CRC speaker @ulrikebingel.bsky.social is now talking about the role of expectations for health and treatment outcomes ⚕️👩‍⚕️💊 Very important in all this: the patient perspective! 🙌

What an amazing day on the MS Wissenschaft! Great expectations for the tour ahead.

Don't miss our upcoming events on the boat 🚢 7.5. Exhibition opening with @ulrikebingel.bsky.social 11.6. Meet the Scientist in Potsdam with @jlaferton.bsky.social ➡️ ms-wissenschaft.de/de/veranstal... 8.7. Event on board with our clinician scientists @liviaasan.bsky.social & Lorenz Peters

New perspective from A04/A01! @julkleibo.bsky.social, @katschmidt25.bsky.social and @ulrikebingel.bsky.social make a case how to translate placebo research into migraine care 🤯 ➡️ headachejournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What a fantastic day at the 6th self help day at University Medicine Essen! ♥️ @ulrikebingel.bsky.social gave a great talk on the body's "inner pharmacy" and good doctor communication ⚕️ Thanks to everybody who came & for the inspiring discussions! @neurologieessen.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social

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Can’t start too early to inspire the next generation of neuroscientists! 😍 Since 8:30 in the morning, researchers from the @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social and Bingellab are preparing! Now we're excited to show young girls what we do all day! 🙌 #girlsday @neurologieessen.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social

Wie wichtig ist Sprache in der Medizin? Der Podcast "Wirkstoff Wort" mit ELH-PI @ulrikebingel.bsky.social geht genau dieser Frage nach! Warum eine klare Kommunikation zwischen Ärzten und Patient:innen entscheidend ist: Jetzt reinhören! 👉 treatment-expectation.de/wirkstoff-wort

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!

Da stimmen wir natürlich zu! 🌟 Ein spannender Artikel mit u.a. @ulrikebingel.bsky.social 👩‍⚕️

The GEEE_EMA has proven feasible in ongoing clinical trials and is currently being used in a study, after which its utility, reliability, and validity in the EMA context can be better understood. Have a look: www.psycharchives.org/en/item/5b7c... @rief01.bsky.social @ulrikebingel.bsky.social

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!

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/...

This will be the biggest & most impactful #scicomm activity I've done so far 😱 I can't wait for ~80k people to interact with our museum exhibit & learn about the body's internal pharmacy! ✨ Thanks so much to @ulrikebingel.bsky.social, @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social & @w-i-d.de for this unique chance! ♥️

Thanks for an amazing audience and vivid discussion at the MindBrainBody Symposium in Berlin! Have a look at www.treatment-expectation.de for more information and to meet my wonderful colleages!

Excited to share @nathumbehav.nature.com's new “How to” collection—a practical set of researcher‑to‑researcher insights on everything from building supportive lab cultures to ethical online data use, designing surveys and megastudies, evaluating LLMs, and more. 🧪 www.nature.com/collections/...

Need a birthday present for someone? 🎂 Read this review by @spektrum.de Gehirn und Geist to find out whether our book is the right one: www.spektrum.de/rezension/bu...

New (German) podcast episode where @ulrikebingel.bsky.social talks about placebo and nocebo effects! ✨ Are they just "in our mind" or based on real bodily changes? Can they be used in medicine? 🤔 Listen to it on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4jtD... Watch it on YouTube: youtu.be/Ctf7HXvL7Eg

Was sind die Mechanismen des Placebo-Effekts und wie kann man sie nutzen? Wie sich Erwartungshaltungen von Patient*innen auf die Behandlung auswirken, darüber spricht ELH-PI @ulrikebingel.bsky.social im Deep Dive der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurologie e.V.: ➡️ www.dgn.org/mediathek/vi...

Schöner Beitrag über den JAMA Letter von @rief01.bsky.social und mir. flugundzeit.blog/drei-von-hun...

🎉 Happy to share a Letter with @rief01.bsky.social in @jama.com: We argue that clinicians should be aware of framing effects when communicating likelihoods. Eg, patients perceive "1 in 10 have side effects" as more concerning than "9 in 10 do not have side effects". jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Read the full publication published in BMC Anesthesiology here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Hmmm - 75 followers in the last 24 hours. Am I on some new list? Anyway hello to my followers, new and old. I used to be way more active on social media, but nowadays it's rough. Here's our most recent paper while I have your attention: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Listen to @ulrikebingel.bsky.social talk about our study in the @elife.bsky.social podcast: elifesciences.org/podcast/epis...

Our A19 PI @helenblank.bsky.social investigated the brain's predictions during speech comprehension 🗯️ Evidence from EEG shows that two mechanisms operate at different hierarchical levels during speech perception 🗣️ Super relevant work for our CRC about how communication works in the brain! 🧠 ↘️

This was a joint effort of @markusruetgen.bsky.social (@ki.se and @scanunit.bsky.social), @ulrikebingel.bsky.social, Philipp Dahmen (a talented medical doctoral student), and me! 💪 The work was funded by the @dfg.de (@sfb-trr-289.bsky.social) and @fwf-at.bsky.social! 🙏

Apply for IASP SIG Awards and Travel Grants for the 2026 World Congress on Pain. Submit your Poster Abstract by 15 February and learn more about available awards and application details on the World Congress website. bit.ly/3XHoyB2

Two of our PIs, @ulrikebingel.bsky.social and Manfred Schedlowski, supported this new study recently published in the journal Clinical and Translational Science! ✨ Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/cts....

Amazing work, Helena and all who contributed to this team effort. Wonderful how collaboration and team efforts make our science better, robust and impactful!

Looking forward to this great event!

Sounds like a great opportunity for ECRs in Brain Imaging!

⏰ Heute brauchen wir EURE Hilfe! ⏰ Seid ihr im Gesundheitswesen tätig und *nicht* Teil des SFB/TRR 289? 👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️ Dann füllt unseren Fragebogen (10-15 min) aus und gebt uns Feedback zu unserem Newsletter! Leitet ihn auch gerne an Kolleg:innen weiter! 😍 Hier geht's zum Fragebogen ▶️ shorturl.at/DR7D5

What a week! Congrats to the whole SFB1280 team, especially our speakers Onur Güntürkün and Dagmar Timmann. Also huge thanks to Sigrid Elsenbruch who led „team translation“. Of course I am convinced that this was crucially important to secure the 3rd funding period.

In a webinar, @jlaferton.bsky.social recently shared valuable insights on how clinicians can enhance patient outcomes: 1️⃣ Ask about individual expectations & experiences 2️⃣ Strengthen patient-clinician relationship 3️⃣ Improve benefit expectations 4️⃣ Manage adverse effects & control expectations

I am so proud and deeply impressed by the amazing work of our ECRs. We could have awarded even more of the ECR publications evolved from the 1st funding period!

All in all, it was a fantastic retreat with lots of exchange at eye-level, between researchers of different fields and career stages, and the members of our Patient Advisory Board. This is the research of the future! ♥️ @ulrikebingel.bsky.social @sheddenmora.bsky.social @helenahartmann.com

Science communication rocks! This is a great poster format that actually makes our science meaningful for everybody including ourselves!

great expectations of science, collaboration and team spirit. Looking forward to the next two days!