William Foster

The paper introduces an automated device for delivering mechanical stimuli to mice, enabling remote testing and integration with brain recordings to study pain mechanisms.

This study shows that face touch is a key social behavior in naked mole-rats linked to social recognition, with molecular and behavioral evidence supporting its importance.

The paper identifies Mrgprb4-lineage neurons as critical for sexual receptivity and dopaminergic reward from social touch in mice.

The paper maps behavioral signatures of inflammatory pain and its relief in mice using computational tools and identifies that a common anti-inflammatory drug does not fully restore pre-injury behavior.

This study shows that chronic paternal morphine exposure increases offspring sensitivity to morphine's antinociceptive effects in a rat model.

This paper introduces PAWS, a machine-vision tool for automated pain measurement in mice, showing it can distinguish painful from non-painful stimuli and quantify pain severity.

This study assesses evoked and spontaneous pain following tooth pulp injury in mice using behavioral and molecular techniques to uncover pain mechanisms.