Zespół Badania Bólu

09/12/2025

📚 New book chapter published!

Dr. Elżbieta A. Bajcar and Prof. Przemysław Bąbel have authored a chapter “The role of observational learning in the formation of placebo and nocebo effects” in the newly released Handbook of Clinical Neurology (2025). In this chapter, they discuss how observing others can shape expectations and lead to placebo analgesia or nocebo hyperalgesia.

Read the chapter here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/handbook/abs/pii/B9780443298844000030

04/12/2025

A new episode of “Wyzwoleni” is now available!

Prof. Przemysław Bąbel joins Marek Gonsior to discuss open-label placebo, expectancies, and how the placebo effect can improve our well-being.

Listen to the episode here:
🎦 YouTube: https://youtu.be/2QeA9-viqLA?si=_hnOtKHCRh3KWlKw
🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4wPejeF6xPKGdQTi825dZc

03/12/2025

New podcast episode: To bardziej skomplikowane x Prof. Przemysław Bąbel

We are happy to share a new podcast episode about pain, placebo and nocebo effects!
Listen to the episode here:
▶️ YouTube: https://youtu.be/2ifeTp8q3Oo?si=ImOGGECKFMjBVF8F
🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1hOdZYwNXp9QcG1DN1i4RK

To Bardziej Skomplikowane · Episode

15/11/2025

W październiku 2025 r. nasz zespół miał przyjemność uczestniczyć w konferencji XII Zjazdu Polskiego Towarzystwa Badania Bólu - Medycyna Bólu 2025.
Podczas wydarzenia przedstawiciele Zespół Badania Bólu zaprezentowali swoją wiedzę oraz najnowsze wyniki badań. Prof. dr hab. Przemysław Bąbel oraz dr Aleksandra Budzisz wygłosili wystąpienia poświęcone niefarmakologicznym interwencjom w modulacji bólu.

Cieszymy się, że mogliśmy być częścią tego inspirującego wydarzenia. Dziękujemy organizatorom za doskonałą konferencję, a wszystkim uczestnikom – za inspirujące dyskusje!

28/10/2025

New Podcast Episode: Rezultaty x Prof. Przemysław Bąbel
What is pain? How does placebo work? Prof. Przemysław Bąbel joins host Dr Michał Wrzosek to break it down.

We invite you to listen! 👇
🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3A3nV87s8Swf4cVRScl7o5
🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/jak-naprawdę-działa-placebo-psychologia-bólu-prof-dr/id1789122927?i=1000733528978

Podcast Episode · Rezultaty · 26/10/2025 · 1h 6m

10/10/2025

New Podcast Episode: Gutral Gada x Prof. Bąbel

We’re happy to share a new episode of "Gutral Gada”, where Prof. Przemysław Bąbel talks with Joanna Gutral about the placebo effect and the role of psychotherapy in pain treatment.

Listen to the episode here:
🌐 Website: https://www.joannagutral.pl/placebo-i-psychoterapia-bolu-rozmowa-z-prof-przemyslawem-bablem/
🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3UosvIok6E3MrtE2DqVdxg
🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/placebo-i-psychoterapia-b%C3%B3lu-rozmowa-z-prof-przemys%C5%82awem/id1618992051?i=1000688012543
▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7FlvA4pIOA

Podcast Episode · Gutral Gada · 02/01/2025 · 54m

07/10/2025

🎉New Publication!
We’re happy to share that our new paper has been published in Musculoskeletal Science and Practice:
“The Fremantle Back Awareness Questionnaire: Cross-cultural adaptation, validity and reliability of the Polish version”
by A. Budzisz, A. Jung, K. Luedtke, G.F. Carvalho, T.M. Szikszay, P. Bąbel, B.M. Wand & W.M. Adamczyk.

📖 In this study, we conducted the cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Fremantle Back Awareness Questionnaire into Polish. The results show that the Polish version is a valid and reliable tool for assessing disturbed body perception in people with chronic low back pain.

The paper is available in open access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msksp.2025.103291

05/10/2025

Podcast Episode: Wojsiat Ogólnie x Prof. Bąbel

We’re excited to share the episode of the podcast "Wojsiat Ogólnie", where Prof. Przemysław Bąbel was a guest of Dr. Wojsiat.

In this fascinating conversation, they explored:
🔹 What pain really is and its evolutionary, biological, cultural, and social functions.
🔹 Which factors can influence how we perceive pain.
🔹 Prof. Bąbel’s new book about memory.

If you’re curious about how pain and memory intertwine - in our bodies, minds, and society - don’t miss this thought-provoking discussion!

Listen to the episode here:
🎧 https://newonce.net/epizod/bol-emocje-i-pamiec
🎧https://open.spotify.com/episode/6SuUQNny3dOOaNc1jloBU6

Odcinek dotyczył szerokopojętego zagadnienia bólu, szczególnie w kontekście psychologii i naszej percepcji umysłowej. Prof. Bąbel to wybitny naukowiec, psycholog związany z Uniwersytetem Jagiellońskim i Polską Akademią Nauk, który od lat zgłębia zagadnienia bólu w ujęciu emocji i pra...

03/10/2025

🚨 New Publication!
Our group has a new article out in The Journal of Pain:
“Placebo hypoalgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia induced by observational learning may be difficult to disentangle in a laboratory setting”
by S.H. Meeuwis, J. Kłosowska, E.A. Bajcar, M.T. Wasylewski, J. Badzińska, D. Rubanets, M. Di Nardo, G. Mazzoni & P. Bąbel.

In this study, we investigated how placebo and nocebo effects can be shaped through observational learning.

👉Check out the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2023.10.011

14/05/2025

We’re honored to take part in the interdisciplinary symposium "Pain and Suffering", organized by the Association of Graduates of Medical Faculties of the Uniwersytet Jagielloński, in collaboration with the Polish Society for the Study of Pain, the Department of Pain Research and Treatment, and the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care of the Jagiellonian University Medical College.

Featured talks include:
👉Pain and the body: how pain changes the perception of the body
Aleksandra Budzisz
👉 I feel your pain – the role of empathy in the experience of pain and inducing the placebo effect
Amelia Jankowska & Daryna Rubanets
👉 Sleep, pain, and placebo
Izabela Łaska