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Date: Tuesday, December 16th, 2025, 15:30h-16:30h UTC+2 (CEST)
Speaker: Axel Vittersø, Kristiania University of Applied Sciences, Norway
Title: Body representations, pain, and opioids
Abstract:
Body representations malleable; they adapt to accommodate tool-use, and they can become distorted after immobilization. Distorted body representations are common in for people with chronic pain conditions and is theorized to be a cause of pain. My research has looked at how body representations might function differently for people with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), a type of chronic pain. I have also looked external factors that might contribute to distorting body representations, such as pain induction and opioid exposure. I have used a range of methods to measure body representations, including questionnaires, cognitive tasks, and psychophysics. The overarching aim of all this work has been to shed light on the role of body representations in chronic pain.
Biography:
Axel Vittersø is currently an associate professor at Kristiania University of Applied Sciences (Norway), a researcher at Ahus Clinical Research Center (ACR) at Akershus University Hospital (Norway), and a freelance researcher (Dr Vittersø).
Dr Vittersø has a PhD from the University of Bath (UK), and he has worked with the AttentionLab at Utrecht University (Netherlands) and the Leknes Affective Brains (LAB) lab at the University of Oslo (Norway).
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