S4 E6 You rethink Pain
Pain: we know it – we feel it – but do we truly understand it? Tom Frankenstein, from the University of Lübeck, aims to answer this question. During the research symposium, he spoke about spatial summation of pain, a hitherto unresearched topic. We had the privilege of listening to the session and we'd like to give you a quick overview of this phenomenon.

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If you'd like to do some background reading, here are a few references:
1. Frankenstein, T., Szikszay, T. M., Coghill, R. C., Luedtke, K. & Adamczyk, W. M. (2025). Wird die räumliche Summierung von Schmerzen durch die empfundene Größe der schmerzhaften Oberfläche geprägt? SPECTILE. Physioscience, 21(S 02), S7. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0045-1811290
2. Adamczyk, W. M., Berendt, N., Trillenberg, P., Hanssen, J., Poehlmann, J., Kapitza, C., Luebke, L., Luedtke, K., Brüggemann, N. & Szikszay, T. M. (2025). Disrupted spatial but not temporal aspects of nociceptive processing determine painful polyneuropathies. Pain, 166(11), e623–e634. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003666
3. Adamczyk, W. M., Ramu, V., Jackson, C., Schulze, G., Goldschneider, K. R., Kashikar-Zuck, S., King, C. D., & Coghill, R. C. (2025). Radiation of pain: psychophysical evidence for a population coding mechanism in humans. Pain, 166(6), 1285–1295. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003474

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