Tor Wager
Professor
Appointments
Director, Dartmouth Brain Imaging Center
Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor
Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Lead, Presidential Cluster on the Neural Code
Biography
Tor Wager is the Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience at Dartmouth College. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Cognitive Psychology in 2003, and served as an Assistant (2004-2008) and Associate Professor (2009) at Columbia University, and as Associate (2010-2014) and Full Professor (2014-2019) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Since 2004, he has directed the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience laboratory, a research lab devoted to work on the neurophysiology of affective processes—pain, emotion, stress, and empathy—and how they are shaped by cognitive and social influences. Dr. Wager and his lab are also dedicated to developing analysis methods for functional neuroimaging and sharing ideas, tools, and scientific data with the scientific community and public. See https://sites.dartmouth.edu/canlab and https://canlab.github.io for papers, data, tools, and code.
Education
B.A. Principia College
Ph. D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Publications
Wager, T.D., Rilling, J., Smith, E.E., Sokolik, A., Casey, K., Kosslyn, S.M., Davidson, R.J., Rose, R.M., & Cohen, J.D. (2004). Placebo-induced changes in fMRI in the anticipation and experience of pain. Science, 303(5661):1162-7. PMID:14976306
Yarkoni, T., Poldrack, R.A., Nichols, T.E., Van Essen, D.C., and Wager, T.D. (2011), Large-scale automated synthesis of human functional neuroimaging data. Nature Methods, 8: 665-670.
Roy, M., Shohamy, D., Wager, T.D., (2012) Ventromedial prefrontal-subcortical systems and the generation of affective meaning. Trends in cognitive sciences, 16(3): 147-156.
Wager, T.D., Atlas, L.Y., Lindquist, M. L., Roy, M., Woo, C., & Kross, E. (2013). An fMRI-based neurologic signature for pain. New England Journal of Medicine, 368: 1388-1397.
Roy, M., Shohamy, D., Daw, N., Jepma, M., Wimmer, G. E., & Wager, T.D. (2014). Representation of aversive prediction errors in the human periaqueductal gray. Nature Neuroscience, 17(11): 1607-1612.
Ashar, Y. K., Andrews-Hanna, J. R., Dimidjian, S. and Wager, T.D. (2017). Empathic Care and Distress: Predictive Brain Markers and Dissociable Brain Systems. Neuron, 94(6): 1263-1273
Ashar, Yoni K., Alan Gordon, Howard Schubiner, Christie Uipi, Karen Knight, Zachary Anderson, Judith Carlisle, et al. (2021). Pain Reprocessing Therapy for Chronic Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Functional Neuroimaging. JAMA Psychiatry. 79(1):13-23.
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