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Pain and cognition research group

Head of group:

Dr. Ulrike Bingel
 

Group members:

Equipment/methods:

• fMRI
• DTI
• Behavioral testing
• Pharmacology

Research topics:

• Information processing in the nociceptive system
• Mechanisms of endogenous pain control and pain modulation
• Principles and mechanisms of pain cognition interactions

Collaborators:

• Irene Tracey
  PaIN Group, FMRIB Center, Oxford University, UK
• Christopher Eccleston
  Centre for Pain Research, University of Bath, UK
• Markus Ploner
  Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
• Sigrid Elsenbruch , Manfred Schedlowski
  Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioural Immunology, UGH Essen, Germany

Funding:

• BMBF Independent Research Group: Neurobiology of pain cognition interactions
• DFG Bu-1323: Cognitive modulation of pain processing and placebo analgesia investigated with fMRI (with C. Büchel)
• Local University funding (freies Forschungsjahr)