Dr Ben Seymour, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU
email: ben.seymour at ndcn.ox.ac.uk
An image from Maria Joao's paper reviewing MVPA (brain decoding) and pain has made it on the front cover of Pain (April). Maria's paper probes the benefts and limitations of MVPA, arguing that it holds real promise for clinical and bioengineering applications, but that it's value for understanding the underying neurobiology of pain information processing is less straightforward.
Congratulations to Suyi Zhang for receiving a W D Armstrong Studentship to undertake her PhD at CBL, Cambridge. Armstrong awards support pioneering research in bioengineering at Cambridge, and Suyi will be continuing her research into pain, reinforcement learning, and brain-machine interfaces.
Japan's leading funding agency - JSPS - offers a fantastic fellowship program for post-doctoral researchers from abroad. It is fully (and generously) funded. If you are interested in working in my lab, or any of my colleagues at CiNet, please check here for more details.
We are very grateful to the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation for our award to support collaborative research between the UK and Japan. This will be used to support our joint research between CiNet and UCL looking into the mechanisms of pain and temperature perception.
After much time and effort, we've completed the new CiNet international webpage. Special thanks to Aya (photographer), Keiko (CiNet), and Toppan Publishing Company.
Check it out here.
If you are interested in using the same photographer and company, please contact me for more information and a recommendation.
Ben Seymour