Responsibilities
Professor of Human Pain Research, Head of the Interdisciplinary Center for Pain Medicine
Contact
Center for Interdisciplinary Pain Medicine and Department of Neurology
Phone:
+49 (0)89 / 4140-4608
Email:
markus.ploner@tum.de
Website:
http://www.painlabmunich.de
Website:
http://zis.mri.tum.de
Further Information
Research focus: Brain mechanisms of pain perception in health and disease
Key words: Pain, brain, neuronal oscillations, cerebral connectivity, electroencephalography, non-invasive neuromodulation, open and reproducible science
GSN Students: Dr. Cristina Gil Ávila
Selected publications:
Hohn VD, Tiemann L, Bott FS, May ES, Fritzen C, Nickel MM, Gil Ávila C, Ploner M. Neurofeedback and attention modulate somatosensory alpha oscillations but not pain perception. PLoS Biol. 2025; 23(1):e3002972. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002972.
Gil Ávila C, Bott FS, Tiemann L, Hohn VD, May ES, Nickel MM, Zebhauser PT, Gross J, Ploner M. DISCOVER-EEG: an open, fully automated EEG pipeline for biomarker discovery in clinical neuroscience. Sci Data. 2023;10(1):613. doi: 10.1038/s41597-023-02525-0.
Bott FS, Nickel MM, Hohn VD, May ES, Gil Ávila C, Tiemann L, Gross J, Ploner M. Local brain oscillations and interregional connectivity differentially serve sensory and expectation effects on pain. Sci Adv. 2023;9(16):eadd7572. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.add7572.
Ploner M, Buyx A, Gempt J, Gjorgijeva J, Müller R, Priller J, Rückert D, Wolfrum B, Jacob S. Reengineering neurotechnology: placing patients first. Nat Ment Health. 2023; 1:5-7. doi: 10.1038/s44220-022-00011-x.
Nickel MM, Tiemann L, Hohn VD, May ES, Gil Avila C, Eippert F, Ploner M. Temporal-spectral signaling of sensory information and expectations in the cerebral processing of pain. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2022; 119:e2116616119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2116616119.