Massieh Moayedi

LENS decodes musculoskeletal pain intensity from sEMG, showing strong generalization to chronic pain cohorts and revealing a conserved pain signature masked by motor variability.

The paper investigates the role of the endocannabinoid system in placebo analgesia, finding that FAAH substrates and low beta-endorphin levels are associated with pain reduction.

This study investigates the relationship between the endocannabinoid system and pain sensitivity in humans using quantitative sensory testing, finding no significant associations overall but a specific link between FAAH substrates and pressure pain thresholds.

This study uses fMRI to investigate neural correlates of body perception disturbances in CRPS during a visual hand morph illusion, finding increased left premotor cortex activation and altered functional connectivity in CRPS participants.

This study investigates the thermal grill illusion (TGI) and finds it elicits primary hyperalgesia in males and secondary hyperalgesia in all participants, suggesting spinal dorsal horn integration and involvement of HPC neurons.

This study uses MEG to identify frequency-specific functional connectivity differences in adult ADHD, finding hypo-connectivity in high-gamma bands and altered integration in key networks.

The paper shows that subjective salience ratings reliably correlate with physiological arousal, supporting their use for salience-matching in pain studies.

This study identifies the claustrum as a key initiator of task-dependent network states in cognitive control using fMRI and structural connectivity analyses.

This study shows that the analgesic effect of rPMS in acute pain is due to its auditory component, not peripheral nerve stimulation.

The paper identifies pathological claustrum activity and its influence on cognitive network processing in chronic pain patients.

This study identifies the human trigeminal-latPB-CeA circuit using diffusion MRI, showing stronger connectivity to the central amygdala than the basolateral amygdala.

The paper investigates the neural basis of body image by identifying the extrastriate body area (EBA) as a structural and functional substrate involved in body shape and size perception.

The paper shows baseline resting-state functional connectivity in pain-related brain regions predicts peak pain ratings from an ecologically valid orofacial pain model.

This study shows that neural entrainment occurs at ultra-low frequencies (0.1 Hz) for thermal pain stimuli but not for auditory stimuli, linking it to pain sensitivity.