Professor Irene Tracey on pain in the brain
Professor Irene Tracey
on pain in the brain
Professor Irene Tracey is a British neuroscientist and current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford whose research has helped transform our understanding of how pain is processed in the brain. Her work uses advanced brain imaging techniques, particularly functional MRI (fMRI), to study pain perception, pain relief, and consciousness.
Irene Tracey explains to Jim Al-Khalili at BBC Radio 4 how imaging the brain, when subjects feel pain, is transforming our understanding of this puzzling sensation.