Pain and Passions

The Pain and Passions Lab is dedicated to studying acute and chronic pain using function and structural brain imaging. We study brain processes underlying touch and 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 and pain perception and apply this knowledge to alleviate human suffering, especially by advancing new clinical approaches to cure chronic pain.