Invitation

The Harvard-wide Program in Placebo Studies in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation invites you to attend:

The Science of Placebo

June 19 & 20

4-5:30pm

Sherman Auditorium

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School

On June 19 and June 20, four world renowned researchers will speak at the BIDMC to the science of placebo -- the neurobiological and clinical factors involved with the placebo response and its role in health care.

June 19:

Placebos, words, and drugs: What's the difference?

Fabrizio Benedetti, MO, Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience, University of Turin Medical School and the National Institutes of Neuroscience, Italy.

Brain mechanisms of placebo analgesia

Tor Wager, PhD, Director, Cognitive and Affective Control Laboratory, and Associate Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder

June 20:

Neurobiology of delusion and placebo

Predrag Petrovic, MD, Senior Researcher, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Placebo effects in clinical practice

Ted Kaptchuk, Director, Program in Placebo Studies and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

NOTE: There is also an invitation•only small seminar on "what we don't know about the placebo" taking place on the day of June 20. You're also invited to attend.

Best,
Ted