Lieven A. Schenk

Lieven A. Schenk is a Researcher at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), affiliated with the Institute of Systems Neuroscience within the Faculty of Medicine. His work focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying placebo effects, pain modulation, and social learning. He employs neuroimaging techniques like fMRI to investigate how contextual factors, prior experiences, and observational learning influence therapeutic outcomes. Key research areas include placebo analgesia, expectation violations, and the role of prefrontal-striatal circuitry in pain perception.

Dr. Schenk has contributed to studies on the experimental and clinical aspects of pain management, including randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses. His research bridges cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, and genetics, exploring how genetic factors and aging modulate cognitive processes. He is based at the Center for Experimental Medicine in Hamburg, collaborating on projects involving social observational learning and the neurobiology of treatment efficacy.