Welcome to the Pain & Emotions 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

April 25, 2012 - Click here to read the newest article published by Mutso et al. about abnormalities in hippocampal functioning in persistent pain. This article was also listed as a featured article in the Journal of Neuroscience, read the summary here.

January, 2012 - The Rheumatologist published an article summarizing Dr. Apkarian's presentation at the 2011 ACR/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting held in Chicago in November. Click here to read it.

September 28, 2011 - Dr. Apkarian has published a new paper on the cortical rhythms of chronic back pain.

May 25, 2011 - Read about the anatomical and functional assemblies of brain BOLD oscillations published by Baria et al here.

May 13, 2011 - A ground-breaking paper recently published by Farmer et al on the functional and anatomical changes of Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome can be read here. You can also view the image from this paper that is on the July 2011 issue of the Journal of Urology. There is a review of this article as well, published in Nature Reviews Urology, which can be read here.

April 13, 2011 - A paper by Chanda et al was published that distinguishes pain characteristics of subacute and chronic back pain.

March, 2011 - Check out Dr. Apkarian's most recent review article about pain and the brain.

February 9, 2011 - Read the Osteoarthritis paper that was recently published by Parks et al.

November 29, 1022 - Dr. Apkarian gave a radio interview for WBEZ 91.5! If you missed it, listen to it now!

April 14, 2010 - A new article has been published by Baliki et al in Neuron. Read it, or you can watch the video abstract!

March 18, 2010 - Dr. Apkarian was on the news! Click here to watch his segment on "The Power of Placebos."