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Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Award Number: SC210118, DoD/CDMRP
The goal of this project is to decrease neural transmission in spinal pain pathways that become overactive after spinal cord injury (SCI) and contribute to the persistent SCI-related neuropathic pain (SCI-NP). To accomplish this, Dr. Thompson at MUSC together with Dr. McPherson at WashU will develop a non-invasive, non-pharmacological neurobehavioral training approach, through which people with SCI-NP learn to restore an appropriate balance of pain and non-pain-related spinal neural transmission through operant conditioning.