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Details for Professor Sally Lawson
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Sally Lawson |
| Job title | Emeritus Professor |
| Department | School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | B.Sc., Ph.D.(Bristol) |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | The Physiological Society (UK) The Society for Neuroscience (USA) The British Society for Neuroscience The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) |
| Keywords | pain chronic pain spontaneous pain primary afferent neurons sensory nerve cells sensory nervous system electrophysiology immunocytochemistry |
| Areas of expertise | I have studied the sensory nervous system, that is the first nerve cells that carry information towards the brain about non-painful or painful stimuli. More recently my group has focussed specifically on the properties of the pain nerve cells (those that respond only to painful stimuli). Because of the clinical need for better treatments for chronic pain, we are focussing on the changes in these pain nerve cells that contribute to chronic pain. That is the changes that a) make the nerve cells more sensitive, or b) make them fire (send action potentials) spontaneously (without any obvious stimulus), as the causes of this are very poorly understood. |