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Otmane Bouchatta is a Principal Research Engineer and Postdoctoral scientist at Linköping University, with a keen interest in sensory physiology, pain, and health diseases. His research primarily focuses on the sensation of human pain, specifically exploring the perception and afferent coding of painful stimuli. Bouchatta earned his PhD by investigating the mechanisms underlying the comorbidity between Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and pain. His research methodology includes a combination of behavioral approaches, morphological analysis, in vivo electrophysiology, and optogenetics in mice. Currently, his aim is to decipher how individual sensory afferents encode painful stimuli using microneurography and psychophysics in humans. Bouchatta's work has led to significant publications, such as his key studies on pain hypersensitivity in pharmacological mouse models of ADHD and the role of serotonergic descending inhibition in neuropathic pain.
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