Event
Frontiers in Pain Lecture Series - Yarimar Carrasquillo, PhD
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 16:00to17:15
"The Amygdala: A Pain Rheostat in the Brain"
Dr. Yarimar Carrasquillo joined the Pain and Integrative Neuroscience Branch of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as an Investigator in 2014. Her research program is focused on understanding the neural mechanisms underlying the physiological sensation of pain as well as the alterations that occur at the cellular and circuit levels that lead to pathological pain states.