Arthur S. Courtin

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Two Faculty positions (Associate Professor or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor) at Aarhus University, Denmark. Molecular Medicine and/or Molecular Biology - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet Ledig stilling ved Institut for Molekylærbiologi og Genetik, Aarhus Universitet

The deadline for these jobs is approaching (1st of April, not a joke), come join our very dynamic department! Lots of exciting new labs, facilities, and a new building. The department is very supportive and internationalizing rapidly. Reach out with any question you have

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Is interoceptive sensing unified across internal organs? 🫀🫁 Our high-powered psychophysical study (N=241) suggests not. Bayesian evidence indicates interoceptive processes are largely modality-specific—challenging the idea of a unitary interoceptive sense.
🔗 Read here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Out now in the Journal of Pain! In this impressive work, @francescafardo.bsky.social and colleagues developed a 2-dimensional psychophysical approach to model the thermal grill illusion of pain. www.jpain.org/article/S152... #neuroskyence #psychscisky

1. Twenty-some years ago, as the embers of the intelligent design movement were dying out, a loose band of thinkers known as the New Atheists made a name for themselves by confusing materialist methodology with materialist metaphysics and going on the offensive against all of organized religion.

Bonjour à vous, aussi nombreux et nombreuses que vous êtes ! On a commencé un kit de démarrage pour que vous puissiez suivre les personnes qui parlent de sciences en tout genre. On l'implémentera au fur et à mesure des arrivées ! Et c'est par là que ça se passe 👉 go.bsky.app/CFvzzJP

Déjà 2600 ici ! Si vous êtes scientifique, chercheuse, chercheur, quelque soit votre statut, doctorant.e, post-doc, PI ou IE, n'hésitez pas à me faire un petit signe pour que je vous suive à mon tour et que je ne rate rien de vos travaux ! 👋🔬

Postdoctoral Researcher Positions: Affective Neuroscience and Pain Lab Dr. Lauren Atlas’s laboratory is recruiting up to two postdoctoral researchers with expertise in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and affective science to join the Section on Affective Neu...

Hello new followers! We have positions available in my lab for one postdoc and 2-3 postbacs to start over the next year and lead studies on pain & emotion using high field MRI. Join us! www.nccih.nih.gov/about/jobs/p...

Médecine traditionnelle chinoise : l'invention d'un mythe L’idée d’une “médecine traditionnelle chinoise” basée sur l'acupuncture est une construction du XXe siècle qui ne rend pas compte de l’évolution des pratiques médicales en Chine. Comment expliquer le ...

L’expression « médecine traditionnelle chinoise » a été inventée au milieu du XXe siècle, mais rend-elle bien compte de l’histoire médicale en Chine, de ses évolutions, de ses débats ? On en parlait sur @franceculture.bsky.social hier et ça se réécoute ici
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And @laurenatlas.bsky.social is also on this site

I think @francescafardo.bsky.social should also be added ☺️

Hi friends- creating a Pain Science & Medicine starter pack!! 💥

✅ interdisciplinary group
✅ scientists, educators, clinicians
✅ Please LMK if you'd like to be included. Tag anyone in the comments who should be part of this group. 🙏🏼
#medsky #psyscisky #PainSky #newbeginnings 🧠

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Hi! Could you add me to it? I am a pain neuroscientist interested in how we perceive temperature stimuli and how these perceptions are influenced by expectations

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Bonjour à toutes celles et ceux qui me suivent (et rejoignent) ici, nous sommes déjà 1000 ! Quelques mots pour me présenter 🤓 je suis journaliste scientifique, je parle à la radio le matin très (très) tôt de nouvelles études scientifiques qui viennent de paraître et de leurs enjeux 👩‍🔬

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Lever le bras lorsqu'on porte un patch à la capsaïcine, la molécule piquante du piment, intensifie la douleur. C’est une observation étonnante, découverte un peu par hasard, et répliquée dans une nouvelle étude. Comment expliquer ce lien entre sensibilité à la douleur et gravité ?

Thanks to the @researchdigest.bsky.social for featuring our recent paper on how raising the arm on which a capsaicin patch has been applied dramatically changes the pain elicited by the patch in question!
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Are blood vessels secret players in pain? | BPS A surprise finding leaves researchers with “more questions than answers.”

Blood vessels probably aren't the first thing you'd associate with feeling pain.

New findings from @acourtin.bsky.social and team, however, suggest that they may play a larger role than we suspected: www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...

Thank you to all the people involved in this project and the funders who made it possible to pursue it!
And thank you @micahgallen.com for the thread writing advice!

In the paper, we speculate about possible mechanisms, which include crosstalk between the vascular and the nociceptive systems. Overall, we are left with more questions than answers but we think we have laid the groundwork for future investigations of this intriguing phenomenon!

Contrary to our hypothesis, this effect did not seem caused by the heterosynaptic long-term potentiation like mechanisms underlying pinprick secondary hyperalgesia (central sensitization), as evidenced by the lack of temporal correlation between the decays of both phenomena.

Our results show that the arm raising effect is very robust and that it is driven by the position of the arm relative to the ground (gravity) rather than to the body (i.e., the effect is the same when the arm is vertical, whether a person is sitting or lying down).

Intrigued, we set out to replicate this phenomenon and investigate its mechanism. To do so, we repeatedly probed sensations evoked by a capsaicin and a vehicle patch, in resting position and during arm raising, as well as pinprick secondary hyperalgesia (central sensitization).

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We stumbled upon this phenomenon while piloting a different experiment. Sabien van Neerven was at her desk, wearing a capsaicin patch on her forearm. When she casually placed her hands behind her head, the pain -which had faded- suddenly flared up, becoming excruciating.

Is our sensitivity to pain influenced by signals coming from our blood vessels? This could explain why when we raise the arm on which a capsaicin patch is applied, the pain becomes much worse, a phenomenon we describe and probe in our latest paper doi.org/10.1002/ejp....
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📄 Our new preprint is out! In a new study of more than 250 individuals, we investigated the link between mental health and sensitivity to acute thermal pain 🌡️😣. Check out the thread below for surprising findings, as well as links to all study materials and code! osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧠📈 #psychology

⚡️Very excited to share our new preprint "Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science", by @olivia.science @fedeadolfi.bsky.social #ronalddehaan #antoninakolokolova & #patriciarich and myself psyarxiv.com/4cbuv Highlights/summary in thread 🧵👇 1/n

A quick reminder that if you think that activity in beta band is an oscillation, think again. β band is dominated by bursts that are not homogeneous. Diversity of the β burst waveforms exceed characteristics found in time-freq. We havecode and nice figures 🧪 #neuroskyence

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Sure, you can send it to this address: arthur.courtin@cfin.au.dk

I can try answering your questions

with @agmitchell.bsky.social @francescafardo.bsky.social @camillaeva.bsky.social @jesperfischer.bsky.social @mgallen.bsky.social