Mia Thomaïdou, MSc
PhD students
Mia will be focusing her research on unexplained pain symptoms, in a pharmacological fMRI study that aims to unravel the functional and neurochemical mechanisms underlying nocebo symptom sensitization and de-sensitization. While she will mainly be working with pain and neuropharmacological inductions in healthy participants, other PhD candidates in the same team will be exploring nocebo symptoms in patient groups, as well as unexplained itch and fatigue symptoms. She is delighted to be standing on the shoulders of scientists in our faculty who have been contributing to the knowledge-base of placebo and nocebo research for years. She is equally delighted about designing novel paradigms that will allow for the investigation of the neural correlates of medically unexplained pain, by combining long-established classical conditioning paradigms with cutting-edge brain imaging methods.
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Andrea Evers in the Media about Covid The more the virus appears to be contained, the greater the resistance to the Corona measures. How well can people follow the necessary measures to prevent the virus from spreading? What is the reason that people do not follow these guidelines and how can -
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ERC Proof of Concept Grant for virtual communication tool Andrea Evers, professor of Health Psychology, has been awarded a Proof of Concept Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). This additional grant is awarded to previous ERC grant recipients -
Andrea Evers chair of the new lanced platform PGMP Today, 11 November 2020, the new Platform Health and Medical Psychology (PGMP) will be launched! The platform represents Dutch associations and networks that are active in Health and Medical Psychology. -
Andrea Evers member of Supervisory Board VU The Supervisory Board of the VU foundation has completed the appointment process for three new members, which will start in the course of 2021. Due to the expiry of the second (and therefore last) terms, three of the five current Supervisory Board members