Understanding how the human brain builds up the experience of bodily pain and different experiences associated with emotional suffering in health and disease across the lifespan.

Pain Neuroscience

Investigating brain mechanisms underlying somatic complaints and recovery in chronic pain conditions.

Emotion & Affect

Studying affective suffering in depression and anxiety through functional brain imaging and psychophysiological data.

Neuroimaging

Identifying brain-behavioral signatures and neural patterns using multivariate neuroimaging analysis.