Zhaoxing Wei

Chinese Academy of Sciences | CAS · Institute of Psychology

Developing neural indicators of pain sensitivity is crucial for revealing the neural basis of individual differences in pain and advancing individualized treatment of pain. However, it still remains elusive whether pain-evoked neural responses can encode pain sensitivity. To address this issue, we analyzed five large functional magnetic resonance i...

Nociceptive acute and chronic pain significantly impact the quality of life and create tremendous societal burdens. Given the side effects associated with pharmacological analgesia, noninvasive periphery neuromodulation techniques, like Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS), have emerged as promising approaches for pain relief. Current...

Gender discrimination is a serious social issue that has been shown to increase negative consequences, especially in females when accompanied by acute or chronic pain. Experiencing social pain through discrimination can increase an individual's evaluation of evoked physical pain. However, few studies have explored the mechanism underlying how gende...

Spinal cord magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an advanced imaging technique (mainly in the cervical cord) and has been gradually used in basic scientific research such as human sensation and motor function, and clinical applications such as spinal cord injury, myelitis, and chronic pain, etc. The development of spinal cord MRI is still at the ear...

Although the analgesic effects of conventional transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and acupuncture-like TENS are evident, their respective neural mechanisms in humans remain controversial. To elucidate and compare the supraspinal neural mechanisms of the analgesic effects produced by conventional TENS (high frequency and low intensit...

Both pain and itch are important protective sensations of the human body, which could induce reflective behaviors such as withdraw and scratch when facing danger. Pain and itch have some similarities in the process of sensory information transmission and modulation, but whether the two sensations share the same neural pathway is still controversial...