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You are here: ICR : Events : Seminar : Autumn 2006 : Professor Irene TraceySome complementary therapies have been shown in rigorous clinical trials to generate no effects beyond a placebo response. Spiritual healing, Bach Flower remedies or homoeopathy could serve as examples. Other treatments, such as acupuncture, generate large placebo effects in most situations and, in some, might have qualities which could maximise placebo effects. This lecture explored what all this might mean.
Professor Irene Tracey is Director of the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (Oxford University), and has built up a team of scientists and clinicians to study the application of this technology in the field of pain research. She is a regular reviewer for several of the major neuroscience journals and has been invited as a guest speaker at several international pain and imaging conferences. Her work has generated media interest – there have been Radio 4 interviews, several television documentaries, and newspaper articles covering the group's work. She has published widely in the field of muscle and brain disease, but for the past ten years her research has been within the field of human pain processing and brain function.
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