Tor Wager

Tor D. Wager
EducationUniversity of Michigan (PhD, 2003)
Scientific career
FieldsCognitive psychology
InstitutionsDartmouth College
ThesisBrain and behavioral mechanisms of switching attention (2003)

Tor D. Wager is the Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience at Dartmouth College, as well as the director of the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at this university.[1] He is known for his research into the placebo effect[2] and into the way the brain processes pain.[3]

  1. ^ "People of CANLab". CANLAB. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  2. ^ Vance, Erik (22 June 2010). "Seeking to Illuminate the Mysterious Placebo Effect". New York Times. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  3. ^ Snyder, Laura (1 September 2013). "Painstaking Discovery". Coloradan Magazine. Retrieved 21 January 2015.