The Appetitive Side of Placebo Effects in Brain and Behavior
Monday, May 13
3 - 4 p.m.
UMSON Room 245 or Online
Join us for the Placebo Beyond Opinions Center guest lecture, "The Appetitive Side of Placebo Effects in Brain and Behavior," presented by Liane Schmidt, PhD, researcher at the INSERM Brain and Spine Institute. INSERM is the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research.
Attend in person in UMSON Room 245 or virtually on Zoom.
Meeting ID: 940 4315 2840
Passcode: Italian
MORE ABOUT LIANE SCHMIDT, PHD, MS
Schmidt earned her PhD at the Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI University in France, for her investigation of the neuropsychological determinants of incentive motivation in humans. Her scientific background stems from the cognitive neurosciences. She earned a Bachelor of Science in biology from Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany, a Bachelor of Science in psychology from the Rene Descartes Paris IV University in France, and her Master of Science in biology from the Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg in Germany.
Prior to joining INSERM, Schmidt worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University in New York and INSEAD in Paris. Her research aimed to understand better the neural underpinnings of incentive effects on learning and decision-making in Parkinson’s disease. In her current work at INSERM, she investigates how beliefs about oneself, the world, and the future bias decision-making and motivation in health, depression, or obesity.