Clinical Research Group Pain
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Herta Flor
Research assistants: Sandra Kamping, Dipl.-Psych.; Maike Müller, Dipl.-Psych.
Funded by: German Research Council as part of the Transregional DFG Research Unit on “Expectation and conditioning as basic processes of the placebo and nocebo response: from neurobiology to clinical applications”
Duration: 01.02.2011 till 31.012014
Project description:
We examine previous attitudes to pharmacological and psychological interventions for chronic pain in 240 patients with chronic back pain and subdivide them into groups with high or low belief in the respective treatment modality. In addition to expectancy, conditioning will be examined and the long-term effects of the intervention will be determined.
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