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Leonard Asan

@asankleo.bsky.social

Affective Neuroscience | Doctoral candidate at Uni Med Center Hamburg as part of RTG 2753 Emotional Learning and Memory | Investigating opioidergic mechanisms of motivation-induced pain modulation

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Criminal risk behavior can be an early sign of dementia - raising important clinical and legal questions.

Excited to share the findings from our meta-analysis: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

03.09.2025 14:23 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Ultra-high-field fMRI reveals layer-specific responses in the human spinal cord Developments in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at ultra-high field (UHF) now allow for insights into human brain function at mesoscopic scale. However, similar progress has not been achi...

I am thrilled about this new preprint of ours! Using 7T fMRI of the spinal cord we uncover two different spinal response components – phasic and tonic heat responses – that map differentially onto superficial and deep layers of the dorsal horn! 🔥Long thread upcoming!🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

26.08.2025 08:09 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 2
legs of runners

legs of runners

Exercise can reduce pain. But you don’t have to just work out harder to feel the benefit. New research suggests that fitness level and sex may play a bigger role than exercise intensity in how we experience exercise-induced pain relief.
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20.08.2025 10:01 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Major news!
Exhaustive metaanalysis (N=2706) finding that endogenous opioids play a MINOR role in human pain regulation:
Consistent with 0.3 on 11-point VAS

By @isabellmeier.bsky.social @martintrostheim.bsky.social @marieeikemo.bsky.social @loseth.bsky.social et al

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11.08.2025 14:35 — 👍 42    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 1
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May et al. find that the relationship between peak alpha frequency and pain does not generalize to brief experimental pain calling for a systematic exploration across different pain types. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/3Hmxszm

12.08.2025 12:00 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Kann KI in der Medizin Leben retten, Simon Hofmann? Der Neurowissenschaftler Simon Hofmann untersucht, wie künstliche Intelligenz in der Medizin zum Einsatz kommen kann.

Hilft künstliche Intelligenz bei der #Demenz - Diagnose? Simon Hofmann @mpicbs.bsky.social erklärt im neuen #AchMensch Podcast, wie sich Ärzte in Zukunft durch #KI unterstützen lassen können und woran der Einsatz bislang scheitert detektor.fm/wissen/ach-m... #Medizin #Gehirn @detektorfm.bsky.social

09.07.2025 13:26 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

important, please give this a read!

22.07.2025 17:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hubschmid et al. find that monetary rewards increase sensory signal strength leading to enhanced pain discrimination. Mechanistically, this process seems to be driven by learning from positive prediction errors. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/4lWzNjb

21.07.2025 12:00 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

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