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Singapore Singapore

Associate Professor at National University of Singapore

Education

I have worked with imaging technologies (PET and fMRI, some EEG) since 1990. The major aim has always been to understand what the brain does when someone reports pain. Recently I have turned my attention more directly towards the nature of pain (what is it, exactly? And how does it develop? Does it develop or is it delivered by the stimulus directly? And so forth). We have also begun to generate pain without injury and have provided the neural correlates of these. We have also reduced pain from a given noxious source and are uncovering how the brain automatically inhibits pain. The hope is that by better understanding what pain is and the brain mechanisms that support pain we can provide ...