Dr Michael Lee

Interests

Chronic pain is defined simply as pain that persists beyond 3 months, but in reality is a suffering marked by emotional distress and physical disability. For many patients, the extent of disease or injury does not fully account for the severity of pain, including those diagnosed with fibromyalgia, complex regional pain syndrome or neuropathic pain. There are also rare individuals who express little or no pain from physical injury or disease. Current research suggests that the nervous system responds differently to injury or disease in different individuals. My research undertakes deep phenotyping of this variation in healthy volunteers and patients to better understand the genetics and neurobiology that underpins chronic pain.

Publication list: orcid.org/0000-0002-5838-2916

Descriptors from the McGill Pain Questionnaire
View image full-size (1500x1125 pixels)

Research Focus

Equipment

Behavioural analysis

Cross-sectional and cohort studies

Electroencephalography (EEG)

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Randomised control trials

Wearable sensors