[Forum SIS] Seminario ANCHISI (RGS & Matematica Applicata)

[Giacomo Aletti]

Con preghiera di diffusione tra tutti i possibili interessati,
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Cordialmente,
Giacomo Aletti

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Nell'ambito dei Reading Group Seminars e del Seminario di Matematica
Applicata, il giorno lunedì 26 Gennaio 2015, alle ore 14.30, nell'Aula
Dottorato (primo piano) del Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Universita'
degli Studi di Milano, Via C. Saldini, 50, Milano,

"A Bayesian model of pain perception and its modulation"

Davide ANCHISI,
Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Biologiche, Università di Udine

Abstract: While pain and pain modulation are most studied at the molecular
and circuitry level, little is known about the logic and computational
strategies underlying them. In the talk I'll describe a probabilistic model
of pain inspired by those developed mainly in research on vision. The model
can account for pain perception and for phenomena related to pain such as
the placebo effect or the modulation of pain due to emotions, motivation
and context. Moreover, the model makes novel predictions, confirmed by
experimental findings. I will also discuss the relevance of a theoretical
model not only in fitting the data and making new predictions but also for
it's power to unveil what the nociceptive system is pursuing and why the
modulation of pain occurs as it does (e.g. why there is a placebo effect)


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Reading Group Seminars: The Reading Group Seminars (RGS) are organized within
an open community of researchers interested in applying up to date
mathematical modeling and data analysis approaches to the study of
biological systems. The RGS take place at the Math. Department in Milan
(via Saldini). Initiatives and updates are published on the website:
http://rgs.mat.unimi.it/.


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Giacomo Aletti, Associate Professor

ADAMSS Centre (ex MIRIAM)
Advanced  Applied Mathematical  and Statistical Sciences

Department of Mathematics (www.matematica.unimi.it)
Via Saldini, 50
20133 Milano, Italy
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