S17: Touchy - Feely: Exposing the Hidden Languages of Our Skin

S17: Touchy - Feely: Exposing the Hidden Languages of Our Skin

Room 12
Sponsored Symposium

Information

Convened by The Physiological Society

  • Co-Chair: Professor David Wyllie
  • Co-Chair: Dr Miriam Düll - The neurophysiological profiles of C-nociceptor and C-itch afferents
  • Professor Francis McGlone- The roles of Aβ-tactile & C-tactile afferents in discriminative and affective touch
  • Dr Saad Nagi - Physiological and molecular characterization of human Aβ nociceptors at baseline and following inflammation
  • Dr Carole Torsney - Tactile and pain processing in a neurodevelopmental disorder rat model
Theme
Brain/body interactions
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Registered attendees

ACR
Adriana Casado Rodriguez
Postgraduate studentUniversity of Bristol
AP
Andrew Palmer
PhD studentUniversity of LIverpool
BT
Becky Tyler
PhD Psychology StudentUniversity of West London