Tor Wager
Tor D. Wager | |
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| Education | University of Michigan (PhD, 2003) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cognitive psychology |
| Institutions | Dartmouth College |
| Thesis | Brain 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. He is known for his research into the placebo effect and into the way the brain processes pain.