Members
Callum O’Malley
Working in:
- Computational and dynamical brain models
- Non-invasive brain stimulation
- Peripheral stimulation
- Neurofeedback
- Virtual reality
- Data science and biomarkers
- Other
Individually my research covers the perception of effort and how it is affected by the pain experience on a psychophysiological level.
Linked to that, I then explore the behavioural and cognitive changes in self-regulation due to pain.
As a group, we explore the use of virtual reality and eye-tracking with their ability to enhance performance across sport, military, aviation, and clinical settings.
As a new member of my team, the aim is to bridge the pain research and eye-tracking/virtual reality research already underway.
Solya Szekely
Working in:
- Non-invasive brain stimulation
- Data science and biomarkers
I study movement-related symptoms and their cortical representation in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Jen Davies
Working in:
- Bioelectronics and sensor systems
- Biomechanics
- Digital Health
- Non-invasive brain stimulation
- Peripheral stimulation
- Virtual reality
I study the spinal and supraspinal neural control of dynamic movements, and the impact of pain, stress or anxiety, and musculoskeletal or neurological disorders on this control. To do this I use techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, surface electromyography (including high-density arrays), intramuscular electromyography, peripheral nerve stimulation and motion capture.
David J McGonigle
Working in:
- Computational and dynamical brain models
- Non-invasive brain stimulation
- Peripheral stimulation
- Other
My background is in the use of non-invasive brain stimulation, neuroimaging and somatosensory psychophysics to explore sensory processing in health and disease. I am a more recent convert to using these techniques to explore how best to modulate chronic and neuropathic pain.
Charlotte Lawrenson
Working in:
- Animal models
- Non-invasive brain stimulation
- Invasive recording systems
- Optogenetic systems
Bhushan Thakkar
Working in:
- Biomechanics
- Digital Health
- Non-invasive brain stimulation
Evaluation of neural mechanisms that govern the presence of co-morbid chronic pain and psychiatric disorders in patients with neuropathic pain to identify biomarkers and therapeutic interventions using pharmacological and neuromodulation-based approaches.
Swati Rajwal
Working in:
- Computational and dynamical brain models
- Digital Health
- Non-invasive brain stimulation
- Data science and biomarkers
Amy Romaniuk
Working in:
- Bioelectronics and sensor systems
- Prosthetics and robotics
- Biomechanics
- Pumps and infusion devices
- Digital Health
- Non-invasive brain stimulation
- Invasive brain or spinal stimulation
- Peripheral stimulation
- Neurofeedback
- Invasive recording systems
- Virtual reality
- Data science and biomarkers
- Optogenetic systems
- Other
Prof. Mark Johnson
Working in:
- Prosthetics and robotics
- Non-invasive brain stimulation
- Peripheral stimulation
- Virtual reality
- Other
I have conducted research on pain and its management for over 30 years. Areas of interest include response to electrophysical agents, individuality and pain, perceptual embodiment, epidemiology, pain education, pain and art, community-support-programmes for pain, and painogencity (health promotion). Methodologies include evidence syntheses (e.g., Cochrane reviews, meta-ethnography), human response to stimuli (quantitative sensory testing) and clinical trials. I have a long-standing interest in transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and deliver a distance learning MSc module on Foundation Neuromodulation (implantable devices).