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Volume 6, Issue 5 (Suppl)
J Pain Relief, an open access journal
ISSN: 2167-0846
Pain Management 2017
October 05-06, 2017
5
th
International Conference and Exhibition on
October 05-06, 2017 London, UK
Pain Research And Management
Modulation of heat pain threshold during virtual body ownership
Matteo Martini
University of East London, UK
I
n the last few years a branch of pain research has been focusing on the modulatory effects of the vision of the body on pain
perception. So, for instance, the vision of one’s own real body has been proven to induce analgesic effects. On the other hand,
bodily illusions such as the rubber hand illusion have provided new tools for the study of perceptual processes during altered
body ownership states. Recently, new paradigms of body ownership made use of a technology that is going places both in
clinical and in experimental settings, i.e. virtual reality. My presentation will concern the studies that made use of virtual body
ownership applied to human models of acute pain.
Biography
Matteo Martini got a first-class degree in Experimental Psychology at the Psychology Department of “Sapienza” University of Rome. He obtained his PhD at
“Sapienza” University with a thesis on the effects of cognitive and emotional processes on pain perception. During the last part of his PhD he moved to London to
work on the placebo analgesia effect at the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology of UCL. He later held a Post-Doc position working with
immersive virtual reality scenarios and virtual body ownership, at the EventLab (Universitat de Barcelona), for the Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi
i Sunyer (IDIBAPS). He is now a Higher Education Academy Fellow and holds a position as Lecturer at University of East London.
m.martini@uel.ac.ukMatteo Martini, J Pain Relief 2017, 6:5(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-0846-C1-014