Merve Karacaoglu

ORCID: 0000-0003-0834-2913
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Research Areas
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Urban Green Space and Health

Leiden University
2021-2025

Netherlands Aerospace Centre
2018

Research shows that the sight of trees and sound moving water improve soundscape quality outdoor spaces exposed to road traffic noise. Effects are attributed non-energetic masking, visual attentional distortion, congruence between hearing. However, there is no literature on such effects for aircraft Aircraft noise varies from other sources, i.e., in terms temporal variability, duration, spectral composition, complicating application findings without further research. In a virtual reality...

10.1121/1.5079310 article EN The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2018-11-01

Abstract Objectives Placebo effects can relieve acute and chronic pain in both research clinical treatments by learning mechanisms. However, the application of placebo‐based treatment strategies routine medical care is questioned. The current study investigated opinions patients with fibromyalgia healthy controls regarding placebo their practical applications. Method An online survey asked 158 age‐ sex‐matched adult (79 per group) to rate perceived influence various mechanisms on relief,...

10.1111/papr.70000 article EN cc-by Pain Practice 2025-01-27

Nocebo effects can adversely affect the experience of physical symptoms, such as pain and itch. on itch have shown to be induced by conditioning with thermal heat stimuli reduced counterconditioning. However, open-label counterconditioning, in which participants are informed about placebo content treatment, has not been investigated, while this highly relevant for clinical practice. Furthermore, (open-label) counterconditioning investigated modalities musculoskeletal disorders, pressure...

10.1002/ejp.2112 article EN cc-by European Journal of Pain 2023-03-18

Nocebo effects are adverse treatment outcomes that not ascribed to active components. Potentially, their magnitude might be higher in patients with chronic pain compared healthy controls since likely experience failure more frequently. The current study investigated group differences the induction and extinction of nocebo on pressure at baseline (N = 69) 1-month follow-up 56) female fibromyalgia matched controls. were first experimentally induced via classical conditioning combined...

10.1016/j.jpain.2023.05.003 article EN cc-by Journal of Pain 2023-05-23

The current paper explores the psychological predictors of nocebo hyperalgesia and whether reduction can be predicted by susceptibility to characteristics.Nocebo effects on pressure pain were first experimentally induced in 83 healthy female participants through conditioning with open-label instructions about pain-worsening function a sham TENS device assess hyperalgesia. Participants then randomized 1 out 2 nocebo-reduction conditions (counterconditioning/extinction) or continued...

10.1097/ajp.0000000000001112 article EN cc-by Clinical Journal of Pain 2023-04-17

Nocebo effects can adversely affect the experience of physical symptoms, such as pain and itch. on itch have shown to be induced by conditioning with thermal heat stimuli reduced counterconditioning. However, open-label counterconditioning, in which participants are informed about placebo content treatment, has not been investigated, while this highly relevant for clinical practice. Furthermore, (open-label) counterconditioning investigated modalities musculoskeletal disorders, pressure...

10.31234/osf.io/uhd3s preprint EN 2021-12-22

Expectancies are known to shape pain experiences, but it remains unclear how different types of expectancies contribute daily fluctuations in fibromyalgia. This combined experimental and diary study aims provide insights into experimentally-derived nocebo hyperalgesia other, diary-derived, expectancy-related factors associated with each other

10.1016/j.jpsychores.2024.111676 article EN cc-by Journal of Psychosomatic Research 2024-04-16

Objective: Expectancies are known to shape pain experiences, but it remains unclear how different types of expectancies contribute daily fluctuations in fibromyalgia. This combined experimental and diary study aims provide insights into experimentally-derived nocebo hyperalgesia other, diary-derived, expectancy-related factors associated with each other Methods: Forty-one female patients fibromyalgia first participated a lab procedure measuring magnitude, then filled out an electronic 3...

10.31234/osf.io/sh5yq preprint EN 2023-12-17

Nocebo effects are adverse treatment outcomes that not ascribed to active components. Potentially, their magnitude might be higher in chronic pain patients compared healthy controls since likely experience failure more frequently. The current study investigated group differences the induction and extinction of conditioned nocebo on pressure at baseline (N= 69) one-month follow-up 56) female with fibromyalgia matched controls. were first experimentally induced via classical conditioning...

10.31234/osf.io/de89n preprint EN 2022-05-11
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