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Luana Colloca

Professor

  • School of Nursing

Contact Information

410-706-8244

Education

  • MD, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro School of Medicine, Italy
  • PhD, Neuroscience, University of Turin Medical School, Italy
  • MS, Master in Bioethics, University of Turin, Italy
  • Post-doctoral training, Brain Imaging, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Senior Fellow, Ethics/Placebo research, National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center, Bethesda

 

  • Title:
    Secondary Analysis and Integration of Existing Data Related to Chronic Orofacial Pain and Placebo Effects
    Sponsoring Organization:
    NIDCR
    Role:
    Co-Principal
  • Title:
    R01AT010333-Neural correlates of hypoalgesia driven by observation
    Sponsoring Organization:
    National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health (NCCIH) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    Role:
    Principal
  • Title:
    R01AT011347 - Neural Mechanisms of Immersive Virtual Reality in Chronic Pain
    Sponsoring Organization:
    National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
    Role:
    Principal

  • Colloca, L. (2019, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 6). The Placebo Effect in Pain Therapies.. Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology, 59, 191-211. doi:10.1146/annurev-pharmtox-010818-021542
  • Honzel, E., Murthi, S., Brawn-Cinani, B., Colloca, G., Kier, C., Varshney, A., et al (2019, February 25). Virtual Reality, Music and Pain: developing the premise for an interdisciplinary approach to pain management.. Pain. doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001539
  • Colloca, L. (2017, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 6). Nocebo effects can make you feel pain.. Science (New York, N.Y.), 358 (6359), 44. doi:10.1126/science.aap8488
  • Colloca, L., Pine, D. S., Ernst, M., Miller, F. G. & Grillon, C. (2016, May 15). Vasopressin Boosts Placebo Analgesic Effects in Women: A Randomized Trial.. Biological psychiatry, 79 (10), 794-802. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.07.019
  • Colloca, L. & Finniss, D. (2012, February 8). Nocebo effects, patient-clinician communication, and therapeutic outcomes.. JAMA, 307 (6), 567-8. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.115
  • Colloca, L. & Barsky, A. J. (2020, February 6). Placebo and Nocebo Effects.. The New England journal of medicine, 382 (6), 554-561. doi:10.1056/NEJMra1907805
  • Colloca, L. (2023, November 21). Placebo Effects Through the Lens of Translational Research. 401. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/placebo-effects-through-the-lens-of-translational-research-9780197645444?cc=us&lang=en&#
  • Colloca, L. (2023, August 16). The Nocebo Effect.. Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology. doi:10.1146/annurev-pharmtox-022723-112425
  • Neogi, T. & Colloca, L. (2023, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 1). Placebo effects in osteoarthritis: implications for treatment and drug development.. Nature reviews. Rheumatology, 19 (10), 613-626. doi:10.1038/s41584-023-01021-4
  • Persky, S. & Colloca, L. (2023, November 22). Medical Extended Reality Trials: Building Robust Comparators, Controls, and Sham.. Journal of medical Internet research, 25, e45821. doi:10.2196/45821

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