Maham Zain

This study investigates how chronic pain alters the rewarding value of gentle touch in mice by examining neural circuits and behavioral responses.

This study shows that non-ionotropic NMDA receptor signaling in the spinal dorsal horn is sufficient to reverse pain hypersensitivity through reconsolidation.

This paper develops a behavioral assay to measure thermal preference in mice after peripheral sensitization, showing that capsaicin induces cold preference and gabapentin reverses it, while optogenetic activation of central terminals does not.