Pain and Motor Systems
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| Drug Screening and Human Pain Research Laboratory |
Aim:
- To investigate analgesic efficacy using human experimental pain models
- To combine experimental and clinical pharmacological pain studies |
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Main Research Areas:
- Multi-modal, multi-tissue pain induction and assessment
- Sensitisation: Experimental and clinical studies
- Proof-of-Concept Studies
- Expert advisory committees
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Head of Laboratory:
- Lars Arendt-Nielsen
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| Experimental and Clinical Orofacial Pain Laboratory |
Aim:
- To study pain/motor dysfunction specifically related to the orofacial region |
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Main Research Areas:
- The study of jaw reflexes during various pain and non-pain conditions
- Trigeminal-cervical nociceptive afferents and reflex circuits interaction in humans
- Studies on diffuse noxious inhibitory controls (DNIC) mechanisms
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Head of Laboratory:
- Kelun Wang
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| Experimental and Clinical Visceral Pain Laboratory |
Aim:
- To develop new experimental methods to evoke and assess visceral pain in volunteers and patients to gain more insight into the visceral pain system |
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Main Research Areas:
- Developing methods to evoke pain from the human gastrointestinal tract in healthy subjects
- Multimodal pain stimulation studies of chronic visceral pain patients
- Development of methods to screen the effect of analgesic compounds on visceral pain
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Head of Laboratory:
- Lars Arendt-Nielsen
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| Musculoskeletal Pain and Motor Control Laboratory |
Aim:
- To improve the understanding of musculoskeletal pain mechanisms
- To develop experimental techniques to screen/predict analgesic efficacy |
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Main Research Areas:
- Models of deep-tissue pain
- Referred pain
- Development of robust techniques to assess parameters related to deep tissue pain
- The effect of deep-tissue pain on motor control
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Head of Laboratory:
- Thomas Graven-Nielsen
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