Posts by Marco L. Loggia, PhD
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Pandemic-related Stressors May Impact Brain Health of Uninfected Individuals
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers explored how COVID-19-related societal and lifestyle disruptions have impacted the brain health of uninfected individuals. Their findings suggest pandemic-related stressors may trigger brain inflammation and affect mental health.
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PET/MRI Reproducibly Discriminates Between Individuals With and Without Chronic Low Back Pain
Angel Torrado-Carvajal, PhD, and Marco L. Loggia, PhD, of the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, and colleagues have reproduced and expanded on earlier work showing that a thalamic neuroinflammation signal on PET/MRI distinguishes patients with chronic low back pain from healthy controls.
Biography
In 2008, Marco Loggia was awarded a PhD In Neurological Sciences by McGill University in Montreal, QC (Canada). During his graduate studies, he had the opportunity to work at the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain (formerly McGill Centre for Research on Pain) under the mentorship of its first director, Prof. M. Catherine Bushnell, a pioneer in the field of human pain imaging. Between 2008 and 2013, Dr. Loggia held the position of Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital. As of 2013 Dr. Loggia became faculty at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Over the past few years, Dr. Loggia’s work has been focused on the study of the role of neuroinflammation in human pain and other conditions.
