Welcome to our lab!

The Iannettilab (aka the GAMFI Centre) is a system neuroscience research group led by Giandomenico Iannetti, and currently based at the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology of University College London. We are mostly interested in the neurophysiology of pain (that we elicit by delivering laser pulses on the skin - as shown in the figures below) and sensory systems in humans.

 

     group photo

 

From 2006 until 2009 the lab was based at the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics of the University of Oxford.

If you would like more information about the lab, or about joining the group, please email Giandomenico Iannetti (g.iannetti@ucl.ac.uk).

Selected Recent Publications

Parallel processing of nociceptive and non-nociceptive somatosensory information in the human primary and secondary somatosensory cortices: evidence from dynamic causal modelling of fMRI data

Parallel processing of nociceptive and non-nociceptive somatosensory information in the human primary and secondary somatosensory cortices: evidence from dynamic causal modelling of fMRI data

 

Liang M, Mouraux A, Iannetti GD. 

Journal of Neuroscience (2011) [PDF]

 

A multisensory investigation of the functional significance of the "pain matrix"

A multisensory investigation of the functional significance of the "pain matrix"

 

Mouraux A, Diukova A, Lee MC, Wise RG, Iannetti GD.

NeuroImage (2011) [PDF]

The analgesic effect of crossing the arms

The analgesic effect of crossing the arms

 

Gallace A, Torta DME, Moseley L, Iannetti GD.

PAIN (2011) [PDF]

Can the functional MRI responses to physical pain really tell us why social rejection "hurts"?

Can the functional MRI responses to physical pain really tell us why social rejection "hurts"?

 

Iannetti GD, Mouraux A.

                                  PNAS (2011) [PDF]

Dishabituation of laser-evoked EEG responses: dissecting the effect of certain and uncertain changes in stimulus modality

Dishabituation of laser-evoked EEG responses: dissecting the effect of certain and uncertain changes in stimulus modality

 

Valentini E, Torta DME, Mouraux A, Iannetti GD.

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2011) [PDF]

Seeing touch and pain in a stranger model modulates the cortical responses elicited by somatosensory but not auditory stimulation

Seeing touch and pain in a stranger model modulates the cortical responses elicited by somatosensory but not auditory stimulation

 

Valentini E, Liang M, Aglioti SM, Iannetti GD.

Human Brain Mapping (2011) [in press]

Nociceptive steady-state evoked potentials elicited by rapid periodic thermal stimulation of cutaneous nociceptors

Nociceptive steady-state evoked potentials elicited by rapid periodic thermal stimulation of cutaneous nociceptors

 

Mouraux A, Iannetti GD, Colon E, Nozaradan S, Legrain V, Plaghki L.

Journal of Neuroscience (2011) [PDF]

A supramodal representation of the body surface

A supramodal representation of the body surface

 

Mancini F, Longo MR, Iannetti GD, Haggard P.

                                  Neuropsychologia (2011) [PDF]

The pain matrix reloaded A salience detection system for the body

The pain matrix reloaded A salience detection system for the body

 

Legrain V, Iannetti GD, Plaghki L, Mouraux A.

Progress in Neurobiology (2011) [PDF]

Single-trial detection of somatosensory evoked potentials by probabilistic independent component analysis and wavelet filtering

Single-trial detection of somatosensory evoked potentials by probabilistic independent component analysis and wavelet filtering

 

Hu L, Zhang ZG, Hung YS, Luk KD, Iannetti GD, Hu Y.

Clinical Neurophysiology (2011) [PDF]

From the neuromatrix to the pain matrix (and back).

 

Iannetti GD, Mouraux A

Exp Brain Res (2010) 205, 1-12 [PDF]

A novel approach for enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio and detecting automatically event-related potentials (ERPs) in single trials.

A novel approach for enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio and detecting automatically event-related potentials (ERPs) in single trials.

 

Hu L, Mouraux A, Hu Y, Iannetti GD

                                 Neuroimage (2010) 50, 99-111 [PDF]

Functional characterisation of sensory event-related potentials (ERPs) using probabilitstic independent component analysis (P-ICA): effect of stimulus modality and stimulus location.

Functional characterisation of sensory event-related potentials (ERPs) using probabilitstic independent component analysis (P-ICA): effect of stimulus modality and stimulus location.

 

Liang M, Mouraux A, Chan V, Blakemore C, Iannetti GD

Clin Neurophysiol. (2010) 121, 577-587 [PDF]

A quantitative comparison of fMRI responses to noxious and innocuous stimuli in the human spinal cord.

A quantitative comparison of fMRI responses to noxious and innocuous stimuli in the human spinal cord.

 

Summers P, Ferraro D, Iannetti GD, Porro CA

Neuroimage (2010) 50, 1408-1415 [PDF]

Characterizing the cortical activity through which pain emerges from nociception.

Characterizing the cortical activity through which pain emerges from nociception.

 

Lee MC, Mouraux A, Iannetti GD.

                                  Journal of Neuroscience (2009) 29, 7909-16 [PDF]

Nociceptive laser-evoked brain potentials do not reflect nociceptive-specific neural activity.

Nociceptive laser-evoked brain potentials do not reflect nociceptive-specific neural activity.

 

Mouraux A, Iannetti GD.

J Neurophysiol. (2009)101, 3258-69 [PDF]


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