Björn Horing

This study uses fMRI to show that conditioned pain modulation involves reduced spinal activity and increased descending pain modulation during pain suppression in humans.

The paper investigates pain treatment using the active inference model, finding that self-treatment and high expectations lead to greater pain relief, supported by EEG and computational modeling.

The paper investigates how the human insula represents prediction errors during pain learning, finding that unsigned PEs are modality-unspecific while signed PEs are modality-specific.

The paper identifies the posterior parietal operculum as a region preferentially activated by heat pain over salient non-painful stimuli using fMRI and behavioral measures.