I’m guest editing a new BMC Psychiatry Collection on #placebo and #nocebo effects in psychiatry. We’re looking for work on expectancy mechanisms, communication, and implications for clinical practice + trials. Details: link.springer.com/collections/... @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social

Call for papers for a collection on placebo and nocebo effects in psychiatry - excellent! @sipsplacebo.bsky.social @timnicholson.bsky.social @devinterhune.bsky.social @labasedow.bsky.social @bnpa.bsky.social @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social

A quick update for SIPS 2027: We’ve extended the deadline for Topical Session submissions by one week to 22 March 2026, 11:59pm UTC. A reminder that submissions for all other formats open on 1 April 2026. See www.sips2027.com/submissions for more info! #placebo #nocebo

The A02 researchers will also be featured in the documentary by Eckart von Hirschhausen about pain! 🤩 More info: presse.wdr.de/plounge/tv/d... Watch it in German from 3.10. onwards in the ARD Mediathek: www.ardmediathek.de/tv-programm/...

⭐ GIVEAWAY! ⭐ We are giving away 3 signed copies of the non-fiction book from our CRC! 📚 In „Dein Körper glaubt dir alles – Wie der #Placebo-Effekt die Gesundheit stärkt“, Prof. Ulrike Bingel and Prof. Sven Benson explain how patients can use the power of #expectations to improve their health. 💪

Exactly two weeks ago, the 5th International Conference of @sipsplacebo.bsky.social at @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social & @filozoficznyuj.bsky.social came to a close! 4 keynotes, 12 plenaries, 8 symposia (24 talks), 16 flash talks, 7 science slams, 109 posters, 8 highlights! #SIPS2025 #SIPSplacebo2025

The Welcome Reception of the 5th International Conference of @sipsplacebo.bsky.social took place in the very heart of @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social — the historic Collegium Maius. We enjoyed a breathtaking performance by the Choir In Kontakt, led by Wassim Ibrahim. #SIPS2025 #SIPSplacebo2025

Can we study placebo effects in rodents? At the @sipsplacebo.bsky.social‬ ECR Summer School in Kraków, Poland, I was proposing that we can do so by using ultrasonic vocalizations as a key element of the anticipatory response. Thanks for the great round table discussions, ‪@sfb-trr-289.bsky.social‬!

🗓️ Save the Date! 🧠 The 12th #IBRO World Congress of #Neuroscience is heading to Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 from 13–16 September 2027! Mark your calendar and join us for an unforgettable #meeting! #IBRO2027 #IBROinAfrica #CapeTown #SouthAfrica @thebalelab.bsky.social

Huge thanks to my amazing Pain Research Group from @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social @filozoficznyuj.bsky.social for all the hard work and dedication in organizing the 5th International Conference of @sipsplacebo.bsky.social — couldn’t have done it without you! 💪🧠👏 #SIPS2025 #SIPSplacebo2025

Great talk by Magdalena Żegleń at the 5th International Conference of @sipsplacebo.bsky.social! Former postdoc in my lab, she presented our data on placebo and nocebo effects in weight loss and fitness interventions. #SIPS2025 #SIPSplacebo20205 #SIPSKrakow2025

Out now in JAMA: Together with Meike Shedden Mora and Winfried Rief @rief01.bsky.social , we share four evidence-supported communication strategies to help health care professionals improve patient expectations—and thereby enhance treatment outcomes. #MedTwitter #Psychology

Back from a stunning @sipsplacebo.bsky.social at Jagiellonian Uni 🇵🇱 thank you @PrzemyslawBabel — 5th Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies conf since we founded it in 2014 Pre-conf workshop w/ Ben Colagiuri ✅ Plenary on GenAI + placebo/nocebo ✅ Reunited w/ the placebo family ❤️

Neue Publikation: Nocebo-Effekte sind bei gesunden Personen stärker und anhaltender als Placebo-Effekte. Placebo- und Nocebo-Effekte veranschaulichen den tiefgreifenden Einfluss kognitiv-affektiver Prozesse auf die Symptomwahrnehmung und die Behandlungsergebnisse und können das Ansprechen.. 1/4

another fun SIPS over already! glad to see so many talks with a focus on nocebo reduction/inoculation. stay tuned for more on the ECR network and SIPS 2027 prep 👀👀👀 #SIPS2025 #SIPSplacebo2025 @sipsplacebo.bsky.social @placebosydney.bsky.social

Had a great time at @sipsplacebo.bsky.social 2025 w/ my supervisor @devinterhune.bsky.social 🥳 i presented two meta-analyses on responsiveness to verbal suggestions (REVS) in #placebo and #nocebo responding & one experiment looking at suggestion effects & REVS in placebo #psychedelic responding.

Thank you! It was truly great to host you in Krakow — thanks so much for your involvement, energy, and collaboration. You were amazing! 🙌 #SIPS2025 #SIPSplacebo2025 #SIPSKrakow2025

We thank @przemekbabel.bsky.social, his great team, and @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social for an inspiring, outstanding and perfectly organized conference in the beautiful city of Krakow! #SIPSplacebo2025 We enjoyed the talks, networking, food and music🥳

🎉 Stefanie Meeuwis, who used to be a postdoc in my lab, has just received the @sipsplacebo.bsky.social Early Career Award! Huge congratulations – so well deserved! 👏🥳

Huge congratulations to Frederik Schlitt (A17), Sven Polifka (A15), Christopher Milde (A04/Z02), & our associated CRC member @jlaferton.bsky.social for winning @sipsplacebo.bsky.social poster prizes! ✨ We definitely (re)presented great research at this year's #SIPSplacebo2025 conference! 😁

Thank you to @przemekbabel.bsky.social and the organising comittee for a great #SIPS2025 #SIPSplacebo2025. As was announced at the closing ceremony, we'll be hosting SIPS 2027 in Sydney, Australia! Follow us for updates, news, and more! ⭐️ @sipsplacebo.bsky.social

We can't wait to hear who of our fantastic slammers has won this year's #scienceslam at @sipsplacebo.bsky.social!!! 😱 Not much longer now... #SIPSplacebo2025

What's next? 4 interesting flash talks bevor the lunch break... stay for networking during lunch and the closing ceremony with the announcement of awards and the next conference! @sipsplacebo.bsky.social #SIPSplacebo2025

Four more posters from my lab were presented during Day 3 and the second poster session of the 5th International Conference of @sipsplacebo.bsky.social — great work by Helena Bieniek, Daryna Rubanets, Amelia Jankowska, and Wiktor Zieliński! 👏🧠📊 #SIPS2025 #SIPSplacebo2025 #SIPSKrakow2025

SIPS snippet #1: Ulrike Bingel from our @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social talking in the first plenary session of the SIPS conference in beautiful Krakow, presenting our work - no effect of dopamine pharmacomodulation on experimental placebo hypoalgesia. #SIPSplacebo2025

Really happy to be able to present my Poster regarding placebo-induced psychedelic effects at #SIPSplacebo2025 Funded by the @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social

This is so cool, @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social! Participation helps us ask better questions, make knowledge accessible, and connect science to real-world political debates. Exactly the collaboration that is missing in many fields of science. We need more of that… @sipsplacebo.bsky.social

Good morning to the last day of the SIPS Conference #SIPSplacebo2025 @sipsplacebo.bsky.social. We start at 9am with a keynote lecture about placebos in VR research:

We are so excited to welcome three people with lived experiences from our CRC's patient advisory board to @sipsplacebo.bsky.social #SIPSplacebo2025! PAB-members: Dorothea Fell, Sonja Arens and Oliver Vorthmann ✨ Thanks to everyone who stopped by our poster and asked questions ❤️

thanks to everyone who visited my poster at #SIPS2025 yesterday! enjoyed discussing our lab's work on nocebo education in a social learning context. keen to pick some of the conversations back up over the next couple days 🤝🏼 @placebosydney.bsky.social @sipsplacebo.bsky.social

Really happy to have participated again. Always a fun challenge! @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social @sipsplacebo.bsky.social #SIPSplacebo2025

We are really enjoying Day 2 of @sipsplacebo.bsky.social so far! After fantastic symposium talks by Lene Vase, @luanacolloca.bsky.social and Andrew Geers, we are looking forward to the next flash talks and the poster session ✨ #SIPSplacebo2025

On today's schedule: PhD candidate Cosette Saunders (TU066, TU067) and postdoc David Ng (TU072) have their poster presentations! 📄

On Day 2 of #SIPS2025 we had postdocs @winstontan.bsky.social and Tessa Rooney showcase their posters, as well as former lab member and close collaborator Kirsten Barnes demonstrate the potential of positive attribute framing to reduce the nocebo effect 🤩

Huge thanks to Lene Vase for highlighting both our recent placebo meta-analysis and the patient advisory board ❤️ The meta-analysis: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... The patient advisory board: treatment-expectation.de/projekte-peo... @sipsplacebo.bsky.social #SIPSplacebo2025

SIPS snippet #3: Excited that we have people with lived experience at this conference @sipsplacebo.bsky.social The patient advisory board from Germany @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social has a poster today (Tues), no 88! Everyone at #SIPSplacebo2025 go check it out

See the program for today on our website: sips2025.eu/program/conf... We continue with talks from Lene Vase, Andrew Geers and Luana Colloca! #SIPSplacebo2025 @luanacolloca.bsky.social

Prof. Shaham starts day 3 of our conference #SIPSplacebo2025 sharing recent findings on the inhibitory effect of dose-extended placebo on opioid intake in a rat model of buprenorphine maintenance.

After an online voting, great prizes for the best slams will be given out on Wednesday so stay tuned! ⭐

Honoured to be on this podcast, serendipitously coinciding with @sipsplacebo.bsky.social in Krakow, Poland

Diving into predictive timing of pain at my poster today. SIPS in beautiful and lively Kraków so far: Welcome Reception = amazing 🔥! Big shout‑out to Bąbel & team! Lots of great talks - and special appreciation for the ECR community! @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social @sipsplacebo.bsky.social

We had a lot of fun organising this science slam and hope all @sipsplacebo.bsky.social participants enjoyed it!

Today I presented my poster on expectation effects on emotional processing across the lifespan at #SIPS2025 in Krakow. @sipsplacebo.bsky.social @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social

The highlight of this year's @sipsplacebo.bsky.social is of course the science slam, which is moderated by @liviaasan.bsky.social this year and was organised by @helenahartmann.com! Let's hear what each slammer has to tell us! #SIPSplacebo2025

We're entering the last session for today and enjoy 6 science slamers: #SIPSplacebo2025 @sipsplacebo.bsky.social

And of course no placebo conference would be complete without @christianbuchel.bsky.social (A02) from @isnlab.bsky.social presenting new work on a Bayesian perspective of how control and agency affect expectation effects in pain ⚡ @sipsplacebo.bsky.social #SIPSplacebo2025

Amke Müller from Yvonne Nestoriuc's group in @uni-hamburg.de gave a great flash talk at @sipsplacebo.bsky.social about open-label placebos for antidepressant discontinuation. #SIPSplacebo2025

Today Aleksandra Budzisz from my lab gave a flash talk on the effects of nocebo verbal suggestion on body image at the 5th International Conference of @sipsplacebo.bsky.social — powerful insights into how words can shape how we think (and feel) about our bodies! #SIPS2025 #SIPSplacebo2025

Next up from the CRC is none other than Sigrid Elsenbruch (A04) from @ruhr-uni-bochum.de / @unidue.bsky.social talking about her work on the gut-brain axis and cross-modal nocebo effects 😱 Work together with @aulenkamp.bsky.social, Robert Pawlik & others! @sipsplacebo.bsky.social #SIPSplacebo2025

SIPS snippet #2: Mirta Fiorio talking at #SIPSplacebo2025 about placebo mechanisms in motor system - important topic in neurology! And: Expectation & placebo/nocebo mechanisms are highly relevant in functional neurol. disorder - glad that @sipsplacebo.bsky.social is picking this up!