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NBD Seminar Series: Dissection of cortical circuits and mechanisms underlying nociceptive and pain in rodent models
Abstract:Chronic pain is a global health problem that remains inadequately understood. Although decades of functional human imaging studies have shown that the overall pain experience results from a collective output activity arising from a matrix of brain networks, understanding the circuits and cellular contributions towards pain chronicity have only recently began to emerge. Here I will discuss the specificity and functional causality of pathways and mechanisms of nociceptive processing in the brain.
Venue:
Level 7, Meeting Room 7C (Pizza will be served)
Duke-NUS Medical School
Host:
Prof Wang Hongyan
Deputy Programme Director
Neuroscience & Behavioural Disorders Programme
Duke-NUS Medical School
Contact Person: Joyceline Ng (joyceline.ng@duke-nus.edu.sg)
Neuroscience & Behavioural Disorders Programme
Duke-NUS Medical School
Date and Time
20 Jan 2020 @ 12:00 - 20 Jan 2020 @ 13:00
Speaker
Dr Linette Tan
Postdoctoral Scientist
Pain Laboratory, Pharmacology Institute
University of Heidelberg, Germany
Linette Tan is a postdoctoral fellow at the Pharmacology Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany, where she has a strong interest in cortical neural circuits and mechanisms of nociceptive processing in preclinical models. Her current work has led to discoveries of a novel circuit and mechanism in cortical pain processing. She recently received the German national pain prize and has previously completed her PhD in sensory neurogastroenterology at the University of Melbourne, Australia.