Anesthesiology

Research Topics

• GABA
• Ion channels
• Nicotinic recepetors 

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• Understanding the endogenous opioid systems to defeat addiction, ameliorate affective disorders, and relieve chronic pain

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• Intraoperative awareness
• Postoperative cognitive alteration
• Brain monitoring during surgery
• Postoperative outcomes

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• Vascular smooth muscle contraction and relaxation

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• Episodic and chronic migraine

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• Role of glutamate metabotropic receptor 5 antagonists in the treatment of inflammatory pain
• Perioperative management and anesthesia for ENT and Head and Neck surgery

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• Structural mechanisms that underlie gating of members of the voltage-dependent ion channel family

Research Topics:

• Pain-related G protein-coupled receptors
• Molecular determinant of opioid receptor signaling

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• Molecular mechanisms of allosteric modulation of ligand-gated ion channels

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• Circuit wiring
• Optical tool design
• Human neurophysiology

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• Neuromodulation of neural circuit function

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• Molecular mechanisms of anesthetic action - Proteomics of GABAA receptors

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• Signaling
• Cell behavior

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• Pain mechanisms

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• Cellular and molecular mechanisms of chronic pain, preclinical and translational research

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• Endogenous pain modulation
• Neuroendocrinology
• Racial and ethnic disparities in pain
• Biopsychosocial model of chronic pain

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• Neuropathic pain
• Acute and persistent post-surgical pain

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• New methods for the treatment of sepsis

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• Clinical decision support
• Medical errors
• Clinical cognition

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• Functional properties and physiological roles of BK channels

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• How primary sensory neurons detect itch-inducing stimuli
• How itch signals are encoded and transmitted in the nervous system
• Molecular and neural pathogenesis of chronic itch conditions

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• Opioids
• Analgesia
• Chemical biology

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• Understanding the neural mechanisms underlying emotional dysregulation in the contexts of stress, chronic pain, and addiction

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• Examining the neuronal mechanisms underlying the effects of opioids on synaptic plasticity and their link to the behavioral effects of opioids

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• Pain sensitivity
• Chronic pain expression

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• Stress
• Metabolism
• Sleep
• Anesthesia

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• Leveraging sleep and circadian markers towards novel interventions and elucidation of
  neuropsychiatric disorders

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• How delta opioid receptors regulate multiple migraine-related symptoms

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• Predicting individual response to analgesic treatment in painful diabetic neuropathy
• Investigation of somatosensory predictors of response to pregabalin in painful chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN)

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• Sex differences in responsiveness to health threats
• Influence of anxiety on health-related behavior

Research Topics

• Pain
• Circuits
• Transcriptomics