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My PhD research in Neuroscience and Psychology investigates how healthcare professionals’ empathy impacts individuals with fibromyalgia. This innovative project translates experimental pain neuroscience into practical chronic pain management, aiming to improve patient care and communication. In my final study, I will use EEG to explore neural mechanisms and am keen to learn non-invasive brain stimulation techniques like TMS. Ultimately, the work seeks to elevate pain management standards for fibromyalgia and related conditions.

I am a neurofeedback researcher. I started in the field of neurofeedback for creative block and I’m now working in the chronic pain area, running clinical trials and helping to develop EEG neurofeedback systems for home-based chronic pain management. I’m also interested in using neurofeedback for MCI and ADHD, and in the women’s health space, as well as using it in combination with other therapies such as psychedelic assisted therapy, talking therapies and pain management programs. I am a mixed methods researcher.

We offer clinical neurofeedback services from six clinics in the UK and home-based internationally. We are protocol-neutral and will adopt protocols as and when they are identified to provide efficacy. We have researched a platform architecture for next-generation neurofeedback, and multiple participant neurofeedback aka hyperscanning.

Currently working on my master’s thesis, investigating the neural correlates of emotional and physical pain using EEG, GSR, and eye-tracking within a novel decision-making paradigm involving emotional imagery (negative images) and electrical stimulation (DS8R).

I am a mature undergraduate student, studying Neuroscience at Aston University. I have had chronic pain for 15 years, and Dr. Boubker Zaaimi has recommended me to this network as I am eager to contribute to pain research from a patient and scientific perspective. Over the last year, I have worked for Dr. Douglas Caruana, conducting extracellular electrophysiological recording experiments (field and patch clamp), investigating the role of dopamine in long-term depression.

I do Neuroscience Pain Education Workshop to groups of chronic pain patients in which I provide sense based Self Management strategies to increase hope and resilience in Chronic Pain Patients, aiming to modify Pain Perception.

During my PhD, I studied hemodynamic and structural changes during sepsis-associated encephalopathy by combining imaging techniques with histological analysis. Currently, I am investigating the neuroprotective effects of selected bioactive molecules using both in vivo and in vitro neuroinflammatory models.

Orthopaedic and Neuro Rehabilitation

Physiotherapy