Catherine Bushnell, PhD

Primary Axis: 
Neurosciences
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Research interests include forebrain mechanisms of pain processing, cognitive modulation of pain, and relationships between pain and consciousness. Current research projects utilize brain imaging and psychophysical testing to study the neural basis of pain processing in humans, as well as rodent behavioral testing and rodent brain imaging. Both normal pain processing and aberrant processing after nervous system damage are addressed.Neurophysiology, experimental psychology, pain research, human brain imaging, psychophysics, animal behavior

Keywords: 
Neurophysiology, experimental psychology, pain research, human brain imaging, psychophysics, animal behavior
Location: 
Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry
Publications:
Seminowicz DA, Wideman TH, Naso L, Hatami-Khoroushahi Z, Fallatah S, Ware MA, Jarzem P, Bushnell MC, Shir Y, Ouette JA, Stone LS. Effective treatment of low back pain reverses abnormal brain anatomy and function. J. Neuroscience 31: 7540-7550; 2011
Loggia M, Juneau M, Bushnell MC. Autonomic responses to heat pain: Heart rate, skin conductance, and their relation to pain ratings and stimulus intensity, Pain, 152: 592-598; 2011
Schweinhardt P and Bushnell MC. “Pain imaging in health and disease: How far have we come?” Journal of Clinical Investigation, 120: 3788-97; 2010
Nandhagopal R, Troiano AR, Mak E, Schulzer M, MD, Bushnell MC, Stoessl, AJ. Response to heat pain stimulation in idiopathic Parkinson’s disease. Pain Medicine, 11: 834-840; 2010
Seminowicz DA, Labus JB, Bueller JA, Tillisch K, Naliboff BD, Bushnell MC, Mayer EA. MRI morphometric and cortical thickness analysis in irritable bowel syndrome. Gastroenterology, 139: 48-57; 2010
Tracey I and Bushnell MC. How neuroimaging studies have challenged us to rethink: is chronic pain a disease? J. Pain, 10: 1113-1120; 2009
Mayer EA and Bushnell MC. Functional Pain Syndromes: Presentation and Pathophysiology. IASP Press: Seattle; 2009
Seminowicz DA., Laferriere AL, Millecamps M, Yu JSC, Coderre TJ, Bushnell MC. MRI structural brain changes associated with sensory and emotional function in a rat model of long-term neuropathic pain. NeuroImage, 47(3):1007-14; 2009
Schweinhardt P, Semonowicz DA, Jaeger E, Duncan GH, Bushnell MC. The anatomy of the mesolimbic reward system: a link between personality and the placebo analgesic response. J. Neuroscience, 29: 4882-4887; 2009
Loggia ML, Bushnell MC, Tetreault M, Thiffault, I, Bherer C, Mohammed N, Kuchinad A, Laferriere A, Dicaire, Marie-Hosee, Loisel L, Mogil JS, Brais B. Carriers of recessive WKN1/HSN2 mutations for hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 2 (HSAN2) are more sensitive to thermal stimuli. J. Neuroscience. 29: 2162-2166; 2009