PhD – “Role of nocebo mechanisms to identify patients at risk for the sensitization of somatic symptoms in patients with unexplained somatic symptoms”

Apply before: July, 4th, 2017
Institute: Leiden University
Job specification: This specific part of project 3 focuses on the development of treatments of nocebo mechanisms for the desensitization of somatic symptoms in patients with insufficiently explained symptoms. For this purpose, combined psychoneurobiological treatment methods, particularly psychological conditioning with pharmacological modulations, will be applied in an experimental treatment study in patients with unexplained somatic symptoms.You will be responsible for conducting different clinical-experimental studies in Project 3. You will write scientific, peer-reviewed publications, resulting in a PhD thesis.
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