Professor
Born 4th September 1974
Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences,
Bartholins Allé 9, DK-8000 Aarhus C
(+45) 871 65828
lenevase@psy.au.dk
2018 MDSc, Health, Aarhus University
2006 PhD, Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, AU
2002 MSc (psychology), Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, AU
2002-2003 Research assistant, Veterans Administration Hospital, University of Florida, USA
2005-2006 Post Doc, Danish Pain Research Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, AU
2006-2010 Assistant professor, Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, AU
2010-2012 Associate professor, Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, AU
2012 Professor with Special Responsibilities, Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, AU
Maternity leaves during the period: 2006, 2010, 2015
2016 Associate Editor, PAIN
2015 Steering committee member, Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies (SiPS)
2013 Ad hoc reviewer for The Norwegian Research Council
Neuro science
Experimental psychology
Alternative treatment
Biological psychology
Clinical psychology - adults
Patient-healthcare provider relationship
Placebo and nocebo effects
Pain catastrophizing and causality
Cognitive deterioration (Alzheimer's disease), emotions and genetics
- these elements are investigated in relation to experimental, acute and chronic pain - especially neuropathic pain conditions
Professor Troels Staehelin Jensen, Danish Pain Research Center, Aarhus University, Denmark
Professor Peter Svensson, Department of Dentistry and Oral Health, Aarhus University, Denmark
Professor Peter Vuust, Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark
Professor Asbjørn Drewes, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
Professor Donald D. Price, University of Florida, USA
Professor Fabrizio Benedetti, Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Italy
Professor Andrew Rice, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College, London, UK
2016 Associate Editor, PAIN
2015 Steering committee member, Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies (SiPS)
2013 Ad hoc reviewer for The Norwegian Research Council
International Network Programme. Danish Agency for Science, Techonology and Innovation.
Endometriose foreningen and Trygfonden. Supervisor
Fonden for Neurologisk Forskning
EU-COST Action ”Pain and Dementia”
The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) project EUROPAIN
The Investment Capital of University Research (UNIK: UNiversitetsforskningens InvesteringsKapital)
The Danish Council for Medical Science
Knowledge and Research Center for Alternative Medicine (ViFAB)
The Danish Council for Technology and Innovation, Denmark
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) USA, RO1.
2010 The Faculty of Social Science's "Young Researcher Award 2010", Aarhus University
2001 Research Travel Award, University of Florida, USA
Professor Irving Kirsch, Program in Placebo Studies and Therapeutic Encounter. Harvard Medical School, USA (4 months during 2017)
Professor Ted J Kaptchuk, Osher Research Center and Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies, Harvard Medical School, USA (1 week in 2012)
Professor Nobuari Takakura, Hanada College, Tokyo, Japan (2 weeks in 2011)
Professor Irene Tracey, Pain Centre and FMRIB, Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom (1 week in 2008)
Professor Fabrizio Benedetti, Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Italy (6 months during the period 2008-09)
Professor Donald D. Price, Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida, USA (2½ years during the period of 2000-03)
A series of lectures on psychological neuroscience at the Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Aarhus University
Supervision of bachelor, master, research year and PhD students
Teaching at the Department of Dentistry and Oral Health, as well as at the Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University
Kjær SW, Rice ASC, Wartolowska K, Vase L. Neuromodulation: more than a placebo effect?. Pain. 2020;161(3):491-495. doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001727
Hall KT, Vase L, Tobias DK, et al. Historical Controls in Randomized Clinical Trials: Opportunities and Challenges [published online ahead of print, 2020 Jun 30]. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2020;10.1002/cpt.1970. doi:10.1002/cpt.1970
Vase L. Can Insights From Placebo and Nocebo Mechanism Studies Help Improve Randomized Controlled Trials?. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2019;106(6):1169-1171.
Skyt I, Lunde SJ, Baastrup C, Svensson P, Jensen TS, Vase L. Neurotransmitter systems involved in placebo and nocebo effects in healthy participants and patients with chronic pain: a systematic review. Pain. 2020;161(1):11-23.
Lunde SJ, Vuust P, Garza-Villarreal EA, Vase L. Music-induced analgesia: how does music relieve pain?. Pain. 2019;160(5):989-993.
Vase L, Baad-Hansen L, Pigg M. How May Placebo Mechanisms Influence Orofacial Neuropathic Pain?. J Dent Res. 2019;98(8):861-869.
Geers AL, Close S, Caplandies FC, et al Vase L. Testing a positive-affect induction to reduce verbally induced nocebo hyperalgesia in an experimental pain paradigm. Pain. 2019;160(10):2290-2297.
Vase L, Wartolowska K. Pain, placebo, and test of treatment efficacy: a narrative review. Br J Anaesth. 2019;123(2):e254-e262.
Geers AL, Close S, Caplandies FC, Vase L. A Positive Mood Induction for Reducing the Formation of Nocebo Effects from Side Effect Information. Ann Behav Med. 2019;53(11):999-1008.
Vase L. Er placebokontrol af operationer kontroversielt eller essentielt?. Ugeskr Laeger. 2019;181(16):V70470.