Troy C. Dildine

Differential encoding of noxious heat and self-reported pain along corticospinal networks: a simultaneous spinal cord-brain fMRI study

This study uses simultaneous spinal cord-brain fMRI to show how nociceptive stimuli and pain perception are encoded in corticospinal networks, with spinal cord activity primarily reflecting stimulus temperature.

Instructions and experiential learning have similar impacts on pain and pain-related brain responses but produce dissociations in value-based reversal learning

This study compares how instructions and experiential learning affect pain perception and brain responses, finding distinct neural mechanisms for value-based learning.