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Professor Anthony Dickenson’s Conference ‘What makes up the pain experience?’

  • April 5th, 2017

Professor Anthony Dickenson from the University College London will give a conference called ‘What makes up the pain experience?’ inside the ‘Comunicar las Neurociencias’ cycle of the Official Master’s Degree of the University of Valencia ‘Basic and Applied Neurosciences’

info conferenciaProfessor Anthony Dickenson from the University College London will give a conference called ‘What makes up the pain experience?’ invited by the Group dedicated to the Study of the Anatomic Substratum of Pain and Analgesia (GESADA) of the Department of Anatomy and Human Embryology of the Universidad de Valencia. This event will take place next Monday 10 April at 4 PM in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, inside the ‘Comunicar las Neurociencias’ cycle of the Official Master’s Degree of the University of Valencia ‘Basic and Applied Neurosciences’.

Anthony Dickenson is a full university professor of Neuropharmacology in the Department of Neuroscience, Phisiology and Pharmacology of the University College London in United Kingdom.  He got his Doctoral Studies in the National Institute for Medical Research of London, and he worked in Paris, California and Sweden. In his field, the brain pharmacology, he dedicated his career to study pain mechanisms. Specifically, his greatest efforts have been focused in trying to find out how pain can be controlled, both in physiological and pathologic conditions, having always a special interest in move basic science to the patient. 

Anthony Dickenson is a full university professor of Neuropharmacology in the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology of the University College London in United Kingdom and had dedicated his scientific career to study pain mechanisms.

Prof. Anthony DickinsonProfessor Dickenson is an Honorary Member of the British Pain Society, was a Member of the Council of the International Association for the Study of Pain for 6 years and he is the editor of the journal Pain. He wrote more than 340 journal publications of great international impact and has an Index h of scientific production of 90, thanks to his motivated and great research team. Likewise, he is the founding member of the Welcome Trust funded London Pain Consortium.

Professor Dickenson has given several conferences invited by the World Congress on Pain, the American Pain Society, the European Pain Congress, the Canadian Pain Society, the Belgium Pain Society, the Association of South-East Asian Pain Societies, the Scandinavian Pain Society, the British Pain Society, the Thailand Pain Society, the Irish Pain Society, the Singapore Pain Society, the Australian Pain Society, the New Zealand Pain Society, and many other national and international Scientific Meetings about pain. He also collaborates in science dissemination with the Royal Institution of Great Britain,. He organises talks about pain addressed both to doctors and chartered institutes.


Date: 10 April 2017

Time:  4 PM

Place: Aula Magna of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry