The Social Neuroscience and Pain lab combines social psychology, social neuroscience, psychopharmacology, and health psychology. Our focus is on three questions:
- How does the physical pain system regulate affect and social behavior?
- How can people cope with physical and emotional pain?
- What are the psycho-physiological factors associated with the subjective pain experience?
Our goals within these primary reasons are to explore questions such as: What are social factors involved in the experience of chronic pain?, How do psychosocial factors moderate the pain-relieving effects of analgesics?, and How do over-the-counter medications affect social cognition and affect behavior in humans?
Our goal is to study how painkillers and other prescription and non-prescription medications shape activity in the brain. Our lab utilizes neuroimaging, psychophysiological assessments, behavioral experiments, and ethical pain induction techniques to conduct its studies.
The ultimate mission of the SNap lab is to contribute to the development of more effective therapeutic interventions to treat pain, refine pain management strategies, and advance our comprehension of the relationship between social experience and the perception of physical pain.
Our Principal Investigator is Dominik Mischkowski.
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