StromanLab

Our latest paper is now available in the Journal of Pain Research, congrats to our recent MSc grad Howie Warren! This research is a comparative analysis focused on understanding how data-driven methods can enhance our understanding of pain, compared to model-driven analyses, in participants with fibromyalgia.
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https://www.dovepress.com/how-fmri-analysis-using-structural-equation-modeling-techniques-can-im-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-JPR
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Gabriela Ioachim

Our latest paper on methods for analyzing functional MRI data from studies of human pain processing is now out in the journal PLOS One:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0243723

This paper shows that data-driven methods, such as by means of connectivity analysis, appear to be much more effective than methods that rely on detecting a pre-defined model response.

A comparison of the effectiveness of functional MRI analysis methods for pain research: The new normal Studies of the neural basis of human pain processing present many challenges because of the subjective and variable nature of pain, and the inaccessibility of the central nervous system. Neuroimaging methods, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), have provided the ability to investig...