For its fifth episode, The Pain Beat gathered together a group of pain researchers virtually to discuss how the mammalian nervous system encodes sensory modalities related to touch, pain and temperature. Are there labeled lines? Is there population coding? Do the mechanisms differ by location – the brain, spinal cord or periphery?
Podcast participants include:
Diana Bautista, PhD, UC Berkeley, US Nicholas Betley, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US Adam Hantman, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia, US Mark Hoon, PhD, National Institutes of Health (NIH), NIDCR, Bethesda, US Taylor Sheahan, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, US (moderator)
