Placebo and the Body: Psychobiological Pathways of Healing

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This webinar is being produced through a collaboration of the IASP's Pain and Placebo Special Interest Group and the University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA - in particular - the University of Maryland School of Nursing's Placebo Beyond Opinions Organized Research Center. Both groups are aligned on advancing unbiased knowledge of placebo effects by promoting interdisciplinary investigation of the placebo phenomenon and nurturing placebo research.

Please note that this webinar is unique in that it is being hosted (both in-personal and virtually) by the University of Maryland.

Join us for the Placebo Beyond Opinions Center guest lecture hybrid series. This lecture on "Placebo and the Body: Psychobiological Pathways of Healing," is presented by Karin Meissner, MD, PhD.

Meissner is a professor of Integrative Medicine at Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Germany. Her research bridges placebo science, psychobiology, and mind-body interventions, with a particular focus on the contextual and embodied mechanisms of healing. Meissner's work investigates how expectation, interoception, and body-based practices influence physiological and psychological outcomes in conditions such as pain, nausea, and appetite regulation. Her studies include experimental and clinical trials on open-label placebos, somatic placebo interventions, and psychobiological sex differences in placebo responses. With more than 100 publications, Meissner's work promotes an integrative, evidence-based understanding of how mind and body interact in healing.

This event will be eligible for CE credits* and is open to the public.

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Karin Meissner, MD, PhD

Professor of Integrative Medicine

Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Dr. Meissner is a professor of Integrative Medicine at Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Germany. Her research bridges placebo science, psychobiology, and mind-body interventions, with a particular focus on the contextual and embodied mechanisms of healing. Meissner's work investigates how expectation, interoception, and body-based practices influence physiological and psychological outcomes in conditions such as pain, nausea, and appetite regulation. Her studies include experimental and clinical trials on open-label placebos, somatic placebo interventions, and psychobiological sex differences in placebo responses. With more than 100 publications, Meissner's work promotes an integrative, evidence-based understanding of how mind and body interact in healing.

Luana Colloca, MD, PhD (Moderator)

Luana Colloca is an NIH-funded physician-scientist who conducted ground-breaking studies that have advanced scientific understanding of the psychoneurobiological bases of endogenous systems for pain modulation in humans including the discovery that the vasopressin system is involved in the enhancement of placebo effects with a dimorphic effect. Currently, her team conducts basic and translational research on genomics of orofacial chronic pain, brain mechanisms of expectancy - and observationally-induced hypoalgesia - and immersive virtual reality. Her research has been published in top-ranked international journals including Biological Psychiatry, Pain, Nature Neuroscience, JAMA, Lancet Neurology, Science and NEJM. The impact of her innovative work is clear from her outstanding publications, citation rate, numerous invited lectures worldwide and media featured by The National Geographic, The New Scientist, Washington Post, Boston Globe, The New Yorker, Nature, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, News and World Reports.