Mind-body Connection with Dr Phil Parker

Dr Phil Parker interviews Dr. Cosima Locher, a research fellow at Harvard Medical School, US, and the University of Plymouth, UK. Her research focuses on the placebo and its effects in patients suffering from mental disorders (e.g., depression) and chronic pain disorders (e.g., chronic low back pain). She is especially interested in how to harness the placebo to help individuals get the best from their healthcare.

Dr Phil Parker explains how pain works and the research and mechanisms behind how placebos can remove it.

Dr Phil Parker interviews Prof Dr Andrea Evers. Her research focuses on psychoneurobiological factors, such as stress and expectations, in health and disease. She has a specific interest in the psychoneurobiology of somatic complaints (e.g., pain and itch) and conditions (e.g., chronic inflammatory conditions), with particular emphasis on placebo effects, stress mechanisms, and treatments.

Andrea is Professor of Health Psychology and chair of the Health, Medical, and Neuropsychology unit at Leiden University.

Dr Phil Parker explains how important beliefs are in health care and how you can identify and start to change them to help your wellbeing.

Dr Phil Parker interviews Prof Luana Colloca MD. Luana is a medical doctor, holds a PhD in neuroscience and has an MSc in bioethics. Her cutting edge research into Parkinson's with Prof Benedetti changed the map on how we value and understand placebos. She has a special research interest in placebos, pain, the opioid crisis and music.

She is an Associate Professor in Pain and Translational Symptom Science and Adjunct Professor Department of Anesthesiology (School of Medicine) at the University of Maryland in the  USA.

Dr Phil Parker explains how to use a new type of language (the verb, to dû) to help get the best from your health care and to encourage positive physiology in yourself

Dr Phil Parker interviews Dr David Hamilton, author of 10 best-selling books on the mind-body connection, to get his take on research on the subject and its practical applications to your health.

Dr Phil Parker explains some of the building blocks of placebo research, and answers curious questions like 'why do blue pills work better in Italy?', along with some practical tips so you can start to use this information to support your own health

Dr Phil Parker explains some of the building blocks of placebo research, and answers curious questions like 'why do blue pills work better in Italy?', along with some practical tips so you can start to use this information to support your own health

Dr Phil Parker interviews Prof Irving Kirsch. Very few researchers know more about placebo studies than the self-effacing and incredibly knowledgable Prof Irving Kirsch. Discover how his pioneering work in the 70s has shaped the scientific interest in how the mind and body interact. Author of pivotal studies on depression, pain, non-deceptive placebos and much more. Also, true fact- he was Grammy nominee for a best selling comedy album in the 1970s...should be fun

Associate Director of the Program in Placebo Studies and a lecturer in medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is also professor emeritus of psychology at the Universities of Hull and Plymouth in the UK, and the University of Connecticut in the  USA.