Welcome to the Pain & Passions Lab!

We study brain processes underlying touch & pain perception in humans using non-invasive brain imaging techniques. In animals we combine imaging, electrophysiology and mathematical models of neuronal networks. The objective is to understand the brain dynamics of touch & pain perception and apply this knowledge to alleviate human suffering, especially by advancing new clinical approaches to cure chronic pain.



Announcements

January 28th, 2009 - A new article has been recently published in Science regarding pain, brain imaging and the law. This discussion can be found here.

December, 2008 - We have two recently published papers, one in the the November 26th (2008) issue of Neuron on gray and white matter interactions in the Brain of patients with Chronic CRPS and another published on December 10th in the Journal of Neurophysiology on pain perception and magnitude estimation.



Discussion (NIH)