Ben Seymour
Wellcome Senior Clinical Fellow
- Neurologist (honorary)
My lab addresses the computational and systems neuroscience of pain. This research is part theoretical: building realistic models of neuronal information processes to understand processes of pain perception and behaviour, and part experimental: testing these theories using a range of experimental methodologies, especially fMRI. My research aims to develop new technology-based therapies for treating pain in clinical populations.
I am a Wellcome Senior Clinical Fellow at Oxford University, working jointly at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging and the Oxford Institute for Biomedical Engineering; and a visiting researcher at the Center for Information and Neural Networks (National institute of Information and Communications Technology) in Osaka, and ATR labs (Kyoto). I am also an honorary neurologist at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Key publications
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Pain Control by Co-adaptive Learning in a Brain-Machine Interface.
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Zhang S. et al, (2020), Curr Biol
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Pain: A Precision Signal for Reinforcement Learning and Control
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Seymour B., (2019), Neuron, 101, 1029 - 1041
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The control of tonic pain by active relief learning
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Zhang S. et al, (2017)
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Fear reduction without fear through reinforcement of neural activity that bypasses conscious exposure
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Koizumi A. et al, (2017), Nature Human Behaviour, 1
Recent publications
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Primary functional brain connections associated with melancholic major depressive disorder and modulation by antidepressants
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Ichikawa N. et al, (2020), Scientific Reports, 10
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Publisher Correction: Primary functional brain connections associated with melancholic major depressive disorder and modulation by antidepressants (Scientific Reports, (2020), 10, 1, (3542), 10.1038/s41598-020-60527-z)
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Ichikawa N. et al, (2020), Scientific Reports, 10
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Hierarchical models of pain: Inference, information-seeking, and adaptive control.
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Seymour B. and Mancini F., (2020), NeuroImage, 222
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Reward Enhances Pain Discrimination in Humans
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Becker S. et al, (2020), Psychological Science, 095679762093958 - 095679762093958
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Pain Control by Co-adaptive Learning in a Brain-Machine Interface.
Journal article
Zhang S. et al, (2020), Curr Biol