Areas of Research:
- Brain imaging and pain processing
- Brain-gut axis
- Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy (CIPN)
- Chronic abdominal pain
- Co-morbid pain and depression
- Genetic predictors of pain modulation
- Gut microbiota
- Modeling chemotherapy associated post-menopausal weight gain and cognitive function
- Neurobiology of placebo and nocebo effects
- Observationally-induced hypoalgesia
- Physical activity
- Quantitative Sensory Testing (QST)
- Sex steroid hormones
- Social learning
- Stress
- The roles of signaling molecules and pathways in chronic and persistent pain
- Weight gain and breast cancer chemotherapy
- Virtual reality mechanisms
Learn more about research at UMSON.
Cynthia L. Renn, PhD, RN, FAAN
Chair, Pain and Translational Symptom Science
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