Irene Tracey is a neuroscientist at the University of Oxford, using neuroimaging tools to study the neurobiological mechanisms of pain perception in acute and chronic pain, as well how states of consciousness are altered with anaesthetics. Until recently, she held the Nuffield Chair of Anaesthetic Sciences, and was Head of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Director of the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain. She is currently the Warden of Merton College in Oxford and has recently been appointed CBE for her services to medical research.

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(00:48) – Why we feel pain

(06:09) – Mechanisms of pain perception

(17:54) – Modulating pain perception

(22:37) – Pain tolerance

(26:07) – Chronic pain

(32:39) – Studying pain experimentally

(46:14) – Empathy

(48:57) – Advice for young scientists