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Samantha Millard
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Samantha (Sammy) Millard is a PhD candidate at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA), University of New South Wales (UNSW). As chronic pain is often difficult to treat once present, Sammy is passionate about developing ways to prevent chronic pain before it takes hold.
As part of a larger team, Sammy is currently working to validate a novel cortical biomarker for pain using electroencephalography (EEG), which could be used to identify individuals at high risk of transitioning from acute to chronic pain (PREDICT project). For her PhD, Sammy’s projects aim to modulate this cortical biomarker to observe the impact on pain sensitivity, and to understand whether a causal relationship exists between this biomarker and pain (MODULATE project).
You can connect with Sammy and follow her work through the projects below, on Twitter, ResearchGate and Google Scholar.
Publications
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 https://vbn.aau.dk/en/publications/97947dff-b608-42e0-adb7-42c4078f7904
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 https://vbn.aau.dk/en/publications/9f686bb9-88cd-4b68-8fd2-54ac69de9ef4
2024, 01 Dec
ENIGMA-Chronic Pain
View full other on https://vbn.aau.dk/en/publications/9da78eaa-f494-4704-ae36-f58c60fae549
2024, 05 Nov
A novel cortical biomarker signature predicts individual pain sensitivity
View full working-paper on https://vbn.aau.dk/en/publications/336dcce0-af84-4156-bfa4-76011e2fcf36
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 https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.14.599003
2024, 15 May
Posterior-superior insula repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces experimental tonic pain and pain-related cortical inhibition in humans
View full working-paper on https://vbn.aau.dk/en/publications/1b5c33dc-d045-4475-9158-278a71a99082
2024, 21 Feb
Unravelling the PAF-Pain Relationship: Modulating Peak Alpha Frequency and Prolonged Pain Sensitivity through Pharmacological and Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Approaches
View full dissertation-thesis on http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/101801
2024
A 5-day course of rTMS before pain onset ameliorates future pain and increases sensorimotor peak alpha frequency
View full other on http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85199433965&partnerID=MN8TOARS
2024
Can non-invasive brain stimulation modulate peak alpha frequency in the human brain? A systematic review and meta-analysis
View full journal-article on http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85193797297&partnerID=MN8TOARS
2023, 17 Nov
Effects of nicotine compared to placebo gum on sensitivity to pain and mediating effects of peak alpha frequency
View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.91933.1
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