Ben Seymour

We are proud to launch what we think is going to be fantastic opportunity for pain neuroscientists and clinicians to learn the foundations of pain neuroscience

We're looking for a senior project coordinator in Oxford - apply by friday eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-det...

Photo of Dr Mehran Ahmadlou with quote “I look forward to continuing collaborations with SWC and leveraging the cutting-edge techniques and experiences I've gained here.”

We're proud to share that @mehranahmadlou.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow at SWC, will join @oxforddpag.bsky.social as a Group Leader.

His new lab will study the neural basis of flexible behaviour and its relevance for neuropsychiatric disorders.

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New preprint from our lab led by Shuangyi Tong 💡 looking at changes in behaviour and #EEG during phasic and tonic pain in a #VR foraging task.
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The first study from my postdoc is now up as a preprint 👏🏻 we combined #EEG and #VR in a cool task (feat. 🦊) finding that lateralised ongoing pain affects predictive responses to phasic pain on the same side of the body.
#Neuroskyence #cogsci #AcademicSky #PainResearch @benosaka.bsky.social

Ouch! Solving the riddle of pain We all know what hurts, but why is it so difficult to describe? Emma Cook meets the neurologists attempting to answer one of medicine’s hardest questions

The blue light makes our lab look so sciencey :) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Exciting PhD opportunities in various labs in Hamburg, including ours. Feel free to contact me regarding details. www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

👏Congratulations to our Co-Theme Lead for Psychological Treatments Professor Anke Ehlers, who has been recognised at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Award 2024 awards ceremony in Dubai.
@oxexppsy.bsky.social
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Whole brain mapping of orexin receptor mRNA expression visualized by branched in situ hybridization chain reaction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.22.563416v1 Orexins, which are produced within neurons of the lateral hypothalamic area, play a pivotal role in

Whole brain mapping of orexin receptor mRNA expression visualized by branched in situ hybridization chain reaction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.22.563416v1

Analgesic effects of high-frequency rTMS on pain anticipation and perception - Communications Biology High-frequency rTMS to M1 and DLPFC modulates pain anticipation and perception. M1-rTMS immediately reduced pain via α-oscillation modulation, while DLPFC-rTMS produced delayed analgesia through defau...

Some mechanistic insights into TMS for pain www.nature.com/articles/s42...

New to Blueksy so wanted to introduce myself - I'm a Psychology researcher broadly interested in body representation, multisensory perception, action, pain and sensation. I use a lot of VR and hand-tracking in my work - here's my most recent creation, of some very distorted embodied VR hands!

DA and 5HT are still battling it out after all these years :)
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Neurotensin-expressing lateral hypothalamic neurons alleviate neuropathic and inflammatory pain via neurotensin receptor signaling Persistent, severe pain negatively impacts health and wellbeing, but half of patients do not receive adequate relief from current treatments. Understa…

A subpopulation of neurotensin releasing neurons in lateral hypothalamus drives strong descending endogenous pain modulation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A digital tool for multidimensional assessment and prediction of treatment effectiveness in chronic pain management Public health; Pain management in health technology

A digital tool captures multidimensional clinical response in chronic pain patients. Looks very useful - for example tracking and predicting outcomes to neurostimulation: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Our latest paper: how aversive systems such as pain help you learn safely but efficiently: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...