Yang Wang, PhD

I am a psychologist with expertise in sleep, pain and placebo research. With a four-year training in pain psychology (Ph.D. period) and more than three years of direct experience in placebo analgesia research (postdoctoral and research staff scientist), my background and interests focus on exploring clinical phenotypes and psychophysiological responses related to placebo/nocebo effects in chronic pain and healthy participants. I am also focusing on sleep disturbance as a major chronic pain-related comorbidity. The goal of my research is to examine the sleep-pain associations and develop novel interventions to break the vicious cyle of sleep-pain relationship.

Wang, Y., Chan, E., Dorsey, S. G., Campbell, C. M. & Colloca, L. (2021, September 10). Who are the placebo responders? A cross-sectional cohort study for psychological determinants.. Pain. doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002478
Colloca, L., Thomas, S., Yin, M., Haycock, N. & Wang, Y. (2021, September 23). Pain experience and mood disorders during the lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States: an opportunistic study.. Pain reports, 6 (3), e958. doi:10.1097/PR9.0000000000000958
Felix, R. B., Rao, A., Khalid, M., Wang, Y., Colloca, L., Murthi, S. B., et al. (2021, November 30). Adjunctive virtual reality pain relief following traumatic injury: protocol for a randomised within-subjects clinical trial.. BMJ open, 11 (11), e056030. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-056030

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