Dear IoNS members,

The public defence of Delia Della Porta's thesis, entitled "Can we Ignore Pain? Testing the Effect of Attention on Mechanical Hypersensitivity with an Experimental Approach", will take place on Wednesday 16 October.

The defence will be preceded by a workshop organized with the external members of her jury.

Programme of the workshop:

13:30 – 14:15:
Kirsty Bannister (King's College London): Translational research in pain: probing modulation

14:15 – 15:00:
Susanne Becker (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf): Modulation of pain perception by learning

15:00 – 15:45:
Dimitri Van Ryckeghem (Maastricht University): Cognitive biases in pain: Did we get lost in translation?

15:00 – 15:45: Coffee break

16:30:
Delia Della Porta PhD public defence
Can we Ignore Pain? Testing the Effect of Attention on Mechanical Hypersensitivity with an Experimental Approach