Welcome! We are a neuroscience research team at University College London that investigates how touch and pain optimises behaviour.
Our goal is to provide a mechanistic understanding of how the brain and behaviour shape the experience of touch and pain, and how the separation between touch and pain narrows in chronic pain conditions. We are investigating how the cortex and midbrain process sensory information and generate appropriate behaviours and pain. We use two-photon calcium imaging, optogenetics, electrophysiology, and machine vision and machine learning to dissect behaviour. The key themes of our work are pain, touch, emotion and quantitative analysis of behaviour.
Our goal is to provide a mechanistic understanding of how the brain and behaviour shape the experience of touch and pain, and how the separation between touch and pain narrows in chronic pain conditions. We are investigating how the cortex and midbrain process sensory information and generate appropriate behaviours and pain. We use two-photon calcium imaging, optogenetics, electrophysiology, and machine vision and machine learning to dissect behaviour. The key themes of our work are pain, touch, emotion and quantitative analysis of behaviour.