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Pain really is in your head. Lab chief Dr. Mark Hoon and doctoral student Yizhen Zhang describe their work to understand how the brain modifies pain signals to change our perception of pain under different circumstances. What they learn could help scientists find safer alternatives to opioids for treating pain.
Metabolic Bone Disorders Unit
In this video, lab chief Dr. Alison Boyce and staff clinician Dr. Vivian Szymczuk of the Metabolic Bone Disorders Unit talk about the methods their lab uses to understand and test treatments for fibrous dysplasia/McCune-Albright syndrome, a rare disease of the bones, endocrine system, and skin.
Neural Crest Development & Disease Unit
Take a peek inside the Neural Crest Development & Disease Unit, and hear from lab chief and Stadtman Tenure Track Investigator Dr. Laura Kerosuo and dentist-scientist Dr. Shaun Abrams, who recently departed the Kerosuo lab to start his own lab at NIDCR as an NIH Independent Research Scholar.
