by admin | 7th September 2022
Fibromyalgia is an incurable condition characterized by chronic widespread pain, fatigue, and emotional distress. Despite that >2% (mostly women) of the population live with fibromyalgia, there are no effective therapies. The mechanisms responsible remained unknown...
by admin | 7th September 2022
Background: “Social attention”describesa key set of behavioursincluding attention to the social world (social visual attention); the degree to which attending to and/or engaging with the social world yields reward (social motivation);and the behaviours produced to...
by admin | 7th September 2022
The unique experience of pain is driven in part by the descending pain modulatory system (DPMS). Activity in DPMS-encompassed descending inhibitory pathways is altered in some chronic pain states. This PhD proposal is concerned with mapping the mechanisms that...
by admin | 7th September 2022
Mutations in epigenetic regulators have emerged as a significant risk factor for a diverse group of neurodevelopmental disorders, with most characterised by autism and intellectual disability. We have generated mouse models with mutations in these high risk genes that...
