My second project is out in Pain Reports! 🎉 In an uncontrollable task, pain is rated as lower and relief as less pleasant: pain seems quieted when nothing can be done about it. We also replicated the link between external locus of control and depressive symptoms. journals.lww.com/painrpts/ful...

Uncontrollability of experimental pain decreases pain... : PAIN Reports

hen pain is uncontrollable with the assessment of changes in learning behavior in a between-subject design informed by learned helplessness theory. Methods: In a first phase, a control group (n = 3...

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1/6 Our paper is out today in Nature Communications! From the SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social we show that temporal expectations shape somatosensory perception - for both painful heat AND non-painful cold stimuli.

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Excited to share that the main work of my PhD has been published! We found that having control over pain makes expectations more precise, and changes pain perception. This is accompanied by activation changes in the PAG, SMA and ACC. You can read the full version of the paper here: rdcu.be/eQy6X

Controllability changes pain perception by increasing the precision of expectations

Nature Communications - Control over pain changes how intense it is perceived. Here, the authors show that this effect results from increased expectation precision with control, which changes...

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Serious concerns about a new cortical biomarker for pain sensitivity jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... We (with @tspisak.bsky.social, @christianbuchel.bsky.social) published a commentary on Chowdhury, Bi et al. (2025, JAMA Neurology) raising serious concerns about their reported results. 👇 1/13

Concern About Predictive Performance of a Pain Sensitivity Biomarker

To the Editor Chowdhury et al1 evaluated a biomarker for pain sensitivity, combining peak alpha frequency and corticomotor excitability. The authors report outstanding performance (validation set area...

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✨Excited to share that our new paper is now out in iScience!✨ 🧠 We show that people can coordinate surprisingly well in novel interactions by violating others' expectations - without requiring deep, recursive reasoning about others’ beliefs. 📄 Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Expectation violations as an effective alternative to complex mentalizing in novel communication

Neuroscience; Systems neuroscience; Social sciences

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Curious about how control affects our experience of pain and how this has been investigated? ✨Check out our new review in TICS!✨with A. Strube & C. Büchel www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

How control modulates pain

AbstractPain, an indicator of potential tissue damage, ideally falls under individual control. Although previous work shows a trend towards reduced pain in contexts where pain is controllable, there i...

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