See our latest publication: Gender biases in the estimation of others' pain. Effect sizes and test-retest reliability of the fMRI-based neurologic pain signature
Available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811921011150?via%3Dihub
Dr. Losin was featured in the With Her in Pain podcast, talking about the health disparities across genders. With Her in Pain is a podcast series that investigates sex and gender bias in medicine, through professional views and patient stories.
https://anchor.fm/with-her-in-pain/episodes/Ep-4-Gender-biases-in-pain-evaluation-and-treatment-In-conversation-with-Dr--Elizabeth-A--Reynolds-Losin-e18tkkn
Suhwan Gim will be joining us for the 21/22 school year as a visiting graduate student. Suhwan is a 4th year Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering, at the Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), advised by Dr. Choong-Wan Woo, in the Computational Cognitive Affective Neuroscience Laboratory (COCOAN). Suhwan received his B.A. in psychology from SKKU, Seoul, South Korea, during which he focused on social and cultural psychology. Currently, his research interests are to examine behavioral and neural mechanisms of how environments including social contexts, developmental background, or cultures influence pain and emotion and understand how psychological and biological health contribute to each other.
Morgan received the Dingwall Dissertation Fellowship in the Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Foundations of Language. CONGRATULATIONS!!!
The lab welcomes out new graduate student Olivia Chen. Olivia graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2018 with a Bachelor of Science in Statistics and Psychology. Olivia has worked as a clinical research coordinator at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital with people affected by sickle cell anemia.
Emma will start her PhD. program in Clinical Child Psychology at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, on the child/family track with Dr. Youngstrom as her mentor.
Nikta graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a B.S in Cognitive science, where she worked in the Decision Analytics lab with Dr. Edward Cokely.
See our latest publication: Gender biases in estimation of others' pain.
Available here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2021.03.001 [pdf]
See our latest pre-print: Effect sizes and test-retest reliability of the fMRI-based Neurologic Pain Signature.
Available here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.29.445964v1
See our latest publication: Expressive suppression to pain in others reduces negative emotion but not vicarious pain in the observer.
Available here: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-021-00873-1
Check out our new paper, “Modeling neural and self-reported factors of affective distress in the relationship between pain and working memory in healthy individuals,” by recent graduate students Steven Anderson, Ph.D., and Joanna Witkin, Ph.D., in collaboration with Taylor Bolt, Ph.D., Claire Ashton-James, Ph.D., and Elizabeth Losin, Ph.D. The article was published in Neuropsychologia, an international journal in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience. The authors analyzed open-science neuroimaging and self-report data from the Human Connectome Project (HCP). The study analyzed data from healthy individuals experiencing pain within the past seven days. The authors found that higher pain intensity in the past seven days was associated with reduced working memory performance and increased activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), a brain region involved in pain, affective distress, and cognition. The authors also found that healthy participants with pain had different levels of activity in the vmPFC during the working memory task than healthy participants who did not report pain. Interestingly, this activity pattern was more similar to patients with chronic pain than healthy patients exposed to pain manipulations in a laboratory.
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