Résultats ERC 🇪🇺 starting grants : 600+ M€ pour la recherche, 4000+ candidats et... 397 lauréats. Bravo à toutes et tous et en particulier à Pascal Gehring et David Mwambari @UCLouvain_be et Rocco Bellanova @UnivStLouisBxl ! Pascal Gehring David Mwambari

Combining topical agonists with the recording of ERPs to probe the functional involvement of TRPM8, TRPA1 and TRPV1 in heat and cold transduction in the human skin. New paper by @arthur_courtin! jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Very proud of my PhD student Chiara Leu who has been awarded an F.R.S.-FNRS FRIA grant to investigate the relationship between ongoing neural oscillations and pain perception!

CONGRATS MONIKA! Monika Halicka was hired as a F.R.S.-FNRS postdoc (“Chargée de Recherche”) to continue her project on complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) for 3 years at UCLouvain. Find out more about her project at nocions.org/postdoc/Monika…

CONGRATS VALERY! Valéry Legrain was promoted to Senior Research Associate (“Maître de Recherche”) by F.R.S.-FNRS at UCLouvain. Find out more about his research project at nocions.org/PI/Valery-Legr…

IMI2-PainCare-BioPain-RCT2 protocol: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover, multicenter trial in healthy subjects to investigate the effects of lacosamide, pregabalin, and tapentadol on biomarkers of pain processing trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

"An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research" nature.com/articles/s4159… Very happy to have contributed to this article within The Fibre Community Science Consortium!

Olfactory Dysfunction Predicts Frailty and Poor Postoperative Outcome in Older Patients Scheduled for Elective Non-Cardiac Surgery, Van Regemorter et al., The journal of nutrition, health & aging link.springer.com/article/10.100…

"No evidence for an effect of selective spatial attention on the development of secondary hyperalgesia: A replication study". Della Porta et al. 2022 (Delia Della Porta) frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

CONGRATS VALERY! --------------- Valéry Legrain (Valéry Legrain) was awarded a research credit (CDR) from F.R.S.-FNRS to initiate his research project on the impact of cognitive factors on the spinal transmission of nociceptive stimuli. ---------------

CONGRATS GIULIA! --------------- Giulia Liberati (Giulia Liberati) received an incentive grant (MIS) from the F.R.S.-FNRS to start a research project on the neuromodulation of pain-related ongoing oscillations.

CONGRATS VLADIMIR! --------------- Vladimir Aron was awarded a FRIA grant from F.R.S.-FNRS to pursue his PhD thesis on the impact of physical exercise on nociception and pain. ---------------

WELCOME AVGUSTINA! --------------- Avgustina Kuzminova was awarded a FRIA grant from F.R.S.-FNRS to start her PhD thesis, under the supervision of Valéry Legrain. Her project aims to investigate how we locate pain on our body. ---------------

"Confidence of probabilistic predictions modulates the cortical response to pain", Mulders et al., new paper out in PNAS! pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

I am looking for a postdoc to work on the project “Using invasive and non-invasive brain stimulation to modulate pain perception in humans”! More details here: uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-r…

Letter on the pain of blind people for the use of those who can see their pain, Valéry Legrain et al., out in PAIN Journal journals.lww.com/pain/Fulltext/…

"Combining Topical Agonists With the Recording of Event-Related Brain Potentials to Probe the Functional Involvement of TRPM8, TRPA1 and TRPV1 in Heat and Cold Transduction in the Human Skin", by @arthur_courtin and André Mouraux is now out! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Spatial summation of cold and warm detection: Evidence for increased precision when brisk stimuli are delivered over larger area sciencedirect.com/science/articl…, @arthur_courtin et al.

I'm hiring again! Open PhD position on the neural basis of thermoception, within a Global PhD Partnership between @UCLouvain_be and KU Leuven uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-r…