Research Project
Dr
Nahian Chowdhury
Current Appointments
Research Fellow
Conjoint Lecturer at UNSW
Key Research Areas
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Dr Nahian Chowdhury is a Research Fellow at NeuRA, a Conjoint Lecturer at UNSW and the Head of Neurostimulation at the NeuroRecovery Research Hub at UNSW. He is also a registered psychologist with AHPRA.   He completed his Masters in Clinical Psychology in 2017, and PhD in 2020. Nahian’s research focuses on the use of Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and Electroencephalography (EEG) to understand the brain mechanisms that contribute to the percept of pain. His goal is to identify brain biomarkers for pain that can be used diagnostically or which can be used as targets for treatments. His research also focuses on developing novel approaches in the use of non-invasive brain stimulation (repetitive TMS, transcranial direct current stimulation) for the treatment of pain.
Publications
2025, 27 Jan
Predicting Individual Pain Sensitivity Using a Novel Cortical Biomarker Signature
View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4857
2024, 11 Dec
Posterior-superior insula repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces experimental tonic pain and pain-related cortical inhibition in humans
View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003488
2024, 03 Dec
A 5-day course of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation before pain onset ameliorates future pain and increases sensorimotor peak alpha frequency
View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003484
2024, 28 Nov
The effect of prolonged elbow pain and rTMS on cortical inhibition: A TMS-EEG study
View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.26.625334
2024, 14 Jun
Peak alpha frequency is not significantly altered by five days of experimental pain and repetitive transcranial stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
View full preprint on http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.14.599003
2024
A 5-day course of rTMS before pain onset ameliorates future pain and increases sensorimotor peak alpha frequency
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2024
A novel cortical biomarker signature accurately and reliably predicts individual pain sensitivity: The PREDICT longitudinal analytical validation study
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2024
POSTERIOR-SUPERIOR INSULA REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION REDUCES EXPERIMENTAL TONIC PAIN AND PAIN-RELATED CORTICAL INHIBITION IN HUMANS
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2024
The effect of staircase stopping accuracy and testing environment on stop-signal reaction time
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2024
The reliability and validity of rapid transcranial magnetic stimulation mapping for muscles under active contraction
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