Position:
Professor
Department:
Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
Organization:
Aarhus University
Country:
Denmark
Lene Vase
PhD, DMSc
Lene Vase if Professor Dr. Med, Ph.D (Psychology), Professor, Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Aarhus University and Director of PN Research Lab, Psychology & Neuroscience, Placebo & Nocebo.
Lene Vase investigates psychological and neurobiological mechanisms underlying placebo and nocebo effects across central nervous diseases such as Pain, Parkinsons’ disease and Alzheimers disease. She has
developed multiple novel placebo controls to adequately test the efficacy of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments like surgery, deep brain stimulation and music.
Lene Vase has more than 100 peer-reviewed international publications in high-ranking journals including the Lancet, Lancet Neurology, and JAMA Psychiatry and her research has been supported by EU and the National Research Council. The work by Lene Vases team has been mentioned in The New York Time, Der Spiegel og The Sydney Morning Herald and she serves on several international research committees.