LAB lab has conducted two seminar series that have been open to other interested academics via Zoom. In 2020-21, to enable early career scientists to distribute their work during the pandemic, we ran Affective Brains during Covid (ABC seminars). During 2022-24, we ran the Forum for Affective Brains: #FABSeminarSeries!

Both seminar series spanned across topics such as research on drugs, reward, pain, emotions, addiction, and most things social.

To watch the previous talks click here or use the links below

List of past FAB and ABC talks

April 2024: Thursday 25th, 13pm – Christine Heim, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Developmental “Programming” of Disease Risk: Long-Term Consequences of Early-Life Adversity.

February 2024: Thursday 29th, 12pm – Emma Fisher, University of Bath. Evidence and quality: the good, the bad, and the ugly. View recording here

January 2024: Thursday 11th, 12pm – Omid V. Ebrahimi, University of Oslo. Towards precision in the diagnostic profiling of patients: leveraging symptom dynamics in the assessment and treatment of mental health disorders.

November: Thursday 16th, 12pm – Johan W.S. Vlaeyen, Maastricht University, Netherlands and KU Leuven, Belgium. An introduction to Single-Case Experimental Designs. View recording here

September: Thursday 28th, 3pm – Rachel Luba, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University. Moving between the Lab and the Clinic: lessons learned and future goals for designing and running clinical trials focused on opioid use and OUD. View recording here

August: Thursday 17th, 12pm – Alexandra Tinnermann, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. How opioid analgesia modulates pain processing within the central pain system from spinal cord to prefrontal cortex.

June: Thursday 1st, 12pm – India Morrison, Linköping University. From action to empathy: the role of medial premotor cortex in acute pain.

April: Thursday 27th, 12pm – Mats Lekander, Stockholm University, Karolinska Institutet. Sick for Science.

March: Thursday 16th, 12pm – Henrik Børsting Jacobsen (rescheduled), University of Oslo, Oslo University Hospital. Truth not triumph – challenging mind body dualism.

Friday 9th December, 12pm – Dan-Mikael Ellingsen, Oslo University Hospital. Taking an interactive two-person neuroscience approach to investigate the patient-clinician interaction in chronic pain.

Friday 18th November, 12pm – Henrik Børsting Jacobsen, University of Oslo, Oslo University Hospital. Truth not triumph – challenging mind body dualism.

Thursday 20th October, 16pm* – Margaret Wardle, University of Illinois Chicago. Using pharmacological manipulations to study reward function and dysfunction

Friday 12th September, 12pm – Marie Eikemo, University of Oslo. Acute and chronic effects of opioids on stress and reward processes in the human brain.

Thursday 23rd June, 12pm CEST – Gill Bedi, University of Melbourne: Value-based decision processes in substance use disorders.

Thursday 2nd June, 12pm CEST – Silje Endresen Reme, University of Oslo: Preventing postsurgical pain through hypnosis.

March 28, 9am – 10am CEST – Genevieve Dingle,University of Queensland: Arts based groups and the promise of social prescribing.

March 21, 9am – 10am CET – Matthew Gullo, National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research (NCYSUR), University of Queensland: From the laboratory to the clinic and back again: bioSocial cognitive mechanisms of impulsivity and addiction.

March 14, 5pm – 6pm CET – Andy Arnold, University of University of California, San Diego: Some body to trust: A meta-analysis revealing diminished interoceptive body trust in loneliness.

January 24, 6pm – 7pm CET – Rachel Zoffness, Dartmouth: Pain and the Brain: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Pain Management.

January 10, 1pm – 2pm CET – Molly Carlyle: Pain, pleasure, and predisposition to addiction: Understanding the role of childhood trauma in substance use disorders

December 6, 3pm – 4pm CET – Kasey van Hedger, Western University: Overview of acute drug effects on emotion using pharmacological MRI

November 29, 1-2pm CET – Balázs Szigeti, Imperial College of London: Is it just placebo? Exploring psychedelic microdosing with self-blinding methodology

November 15, 1-2pm CET – Claudia Massaccesi, University of Vienna: Mu-opioids, stress and social reward

June 16, 3-3.45pm Oslo time – Pascal Vrtička, University of Essex: On the same wavelength –  Interpersonal neural synchrony in parent-child dyads

June 2, 3-3.45pm Oslo time – India Morrison, Linköping University: Recent social context shapes responses of human endogenous oxytocin and its neural correlates during touch interactions

May 19, 5-6pm Oslo time – Daniel Castro, University of Washington: Next-Generation Approaches for Investigating Neuropeptidergic Circuits in Reward and Motivation

May 5, 3-4pm Oslo time – Florian Bublatzky, Mannheim University: Person perception as a function of verbal threat and safety learning

April 21, 3 – 3.45pm Oslo time – Anne Willems, KU Leuven: Relief: the pleasure of absent danger

April 7, 3 – 3.45pm Oslo time – Todd Vogel, McGill University: Pain and cognitive effort

March 24, 3 – 3.45pm Oslo time – Alex Shackman, University of Maryland: The Nature and the Neurobiology of Anxiety

March 10, 3 – 3.45pm Oslo time – Anat Perry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The contribution of different information channels to different facets of empathy

February 24, 3 – 3.45pm Oslo time – Michelle Failla, Ohio State University: Pain Anxiety, Perception, and Expression in Autism

February 17, 3 – 3.45pm Oslo time – Vanessa Teckentrup, University of Tübingen: Going with your gut – Effects of non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation on motivation, metabolism, and brain signaling

January 27, 3-3.45pm Oslo time – Stefan Schulreich, Hamburg University: Altruism under stress

December 9, 3-3.45 pm Oslo time – Elise Weerts, Johns Hopkins: Neuroimaging of the opioid receptor subtypes towards understanding alcohol use disorder and its treatment

December 4, 11.15 – 12.00 Oslo time – Julia Fietz, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry: Delineating working memory through fMRI and pupillometry and exploring its role in stress-related disorders

November 20, 11.15-12.00 Oslo time – Roser Cañigueral, UCL: Cognitive and neural mechanisms of social signalling

November 6, 11-15-12.00 (VMT+1) – Helena Hartmann, University of Vienna: Empathy for pain

October 16, 11.15-12.00 (GMT+1) – Eliane Deschrijver, Ghent University & UNSW Sydney: Sally disagrees with you: Relational versus representational mentalising

October 9, 11.15-12.00 (GMT+1) – Jon McPhetres, Durham University: Understanding emotional piloerection.

October 2, 11.15-12.00 (GMT+1) – Siri Leknes, University of Oslo: What opioids do and why they are overrated

September 25, 11.15-12.00 (GMT+1) – Sarah Charles, Coventry University: The Psychobiology of Ritual Social Bonding

September 18, 11.15-12.00 – Sandra Klonteig, Oslo University Hospital: Neuromodulation of brain activity during sleep and its effect on memory consolidation