New lab members

Maria Joao is joining us as a short-term JSPS fellow, and Harry Barber is joining on a UCL Research Society Summer Studentship. See People page for more details.

We still will likely have an opening for post-doc position based at ATR from November. Please contact me if you're interested.

Post-doc position at CBL, Cambridge from 2015

There's likely to be a position for a post-doc in my lab at CBL Cambridge from approx April 2015, funded by the Wellcome Trust. Informal enquiries welcome. 

Uncertainty increases pain

Check out our new paper: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/13/5638.full.pdf - free online at the Journal of Neuroscience.

Placebo and nocebo effects are well known - and describe how predictions bias experience of pain. In a nutshell, we show that if those predictions are more uncertain, this uncertainty increases pain independently of the bias induced by the basic placebo / nocebo effect. This effect is correlated with fMRI BOLD activity in the PAG.

Uncertainty increases pain: evidence for a novel mechanism of pain modulation involving the periaqueductal gray. Yoshida W, Seymour B, Koltzenburg M, Dolan RJ. J Neurosci. 2013 Mar 27;33(13):5638-46. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4984-12.2013. PMID: 23536078

 

Post-doc position coming up soon

There's a possibility of a new post-doc / research associate position being available here (in Japan) later in the year. It would involve using fMRI and brain decoding methods to study pain, and a collaboration with colleagues at ATR.

If you're interested, please write to me at seymour@cinet.jp

14.03.2013

BMI Osaka

BMI Osaka is the worlds first dedicated symposium on the clinical - translational aspects of brain-machine interfaces, organised by Toshiki Yoshimine from CiNet.