TMD Studies at UMB

01/31/2022

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05/15/2020

How do placebos and nocebos work? Dr. Colloca spoke with LOAToday to share her expertise!

We often talk here on the show about the placebo and nocebo effects. However, it’s not every day that we get to include the perspective of a top researcher i...

05/14/2020

How do placebo effects and patient-clinician relationships influence behaviors and clinical outcomes? Read more about placebo and nocebo effects here!

aDepartment of Pain and Translational Symptom Science, School of Nursing, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA

05/13/2020

Check out our recent publication in PAIN!

We found racial differences in placebo analgesia, or pain relief from an inert treatment, in our study cohort . Our participants were 186 Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD) patients and 186 healthy participants matched with the patients for thier race, s*x, and age. More reserach is needed to understand why we found this effect, but racial disparities and past medical experiences likely play a role.

Placebo hypoalgesia: racial differences

Pain. 2020 Mar 21. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001876. [Epub ahead of print]

05/06/2020

We've been published again! PAIN released our paper on how virtual reality can increase pain tolerance. Abstract and full text links here:

ic potentials. However, the VR mechanisms remain only partially known. This study is novel in that, for the first time in VR research, appropriate controls for VR contexts, immersive characteristics (i.e. control VR), and multifaceted objective and subjective outcomes were included in a within-subje...

07/26/2019

Come join at the Baltimore Better Communities Health Fair, 1622 N Carey Street in Baltimore!

04/17/2019

Come to John Hopkins Turner Auditorium from now until 8:00pm for free health screenings and to learn about clinical research studies going on now! @ Johns Hopkins University