Danish Pain Research Center
Danish Pain Research Center
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University and Department of Neurology, Aarhus University Hospital.
The Danish Pain Research Center (DPRC) is directed by Professor Nanna Brix Finnerup. The center is a university-based clinical research unit under Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University and is affiliated with Department of Neurology, Aarhus University Hospital. The center was founded in 1994 by Professor Troels Staehelin Jensen. The mission of DPRC is to increase our understanding of acute and chronic pain mechanisms. We are particularly interested in the somatosensory nervous system and the pathophysiology and therapy of neuropathic pain. We focus on translational and clinical research including mechanism-based clinical trials.
Research focus
- Neuropathic pain
- Somatosensory nervous system
- Clinical trials
- Post-surgical pain
- Spinal cord injury pain
- Cerebral palsy
- Pain mechanisms
- Painful neuropathy
Techniques
- Somedic thermotester and full equipment for quantitative sensory testing
- Cold pressor test and setup for conditioned pain modulation
- Contact Heat-Evoked Potential Stimulator (CHEPS) for testing heat thresholds and evoked potentials
- Laser evoked potentials
- HRT Rostock Cornea module confocal scanning microscope
- Task Force Monitor, a hemodynamic monitoring system
- Moor LdI laser doppler imager for measuring cutaneous blood flow
