Alina Panzel
@alinapanzel.bsky.social
Doctoral student at the Max Planck School of Cognition, currently at UKE Hamburg | Cognitive & affective modulations of pain perception
Our new study is out in Annals of Neurology! We found that chronic back pain amplifies how the brain processes everyday sounds — and Pain Reprocessing Therapy can start to reverse it.
Panzel, Büchel, Leroux, Wager & Ashar (2026)
doi.org/10.1002/ana....
Panzel, Büchel, Leroux, Wager & Ashar (2026)
doi.org/10.1002/ana....
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March 17, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Our new study is out in Annals of Neurology! We found that chronic back pain amplifies how the brain processes everyday sounds — and Pain Reprocessing Therapy can start to reverse it.
Panzel, Büchel, Leroux, Wager & Ashar (2026)
doi.org/10.1002/ana....
Panzel, Büchel, Leroux, Wager & Ashar (2026)
doi.org/10.1002/ana....
Reposted by Alina Panzel
Serious concerns about a new cortical biomarker for pain sensitivity
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We (with @tspisak.bsky.social, @christianbuchel.bsky.social) published a commentary on Chowdhury, Bi et al. (2025, JAMA Neurology) raising serious concerns about their reported results.
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We (with @tspisak.bsky.social, @christianbuchel.bsky.social) published a commentary on Chowdhury, Bi et al. (2025, JAMA Neurology) raising serious concerns about their reported results.
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Concern About Predictive Performance of a Pain Sensitivity Biomarker
To the Editor Chowdhury et al1 evaluated a biomarker for pain sensitivity, combining peak alpha frequency and corticomotor excitability. The authors report outstanding performance (validation set area...
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July 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Serious concerns about a new cortical biomarker for pain sensitivity
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
We (with @tspisak.bsky.social, @christianbuchel.bsky.social) published a commentary on Chowdhury, Bi et al. (2025, JAMA Neurology) raising serious concerns about their reported results.
👇 1/13
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
We (with @tspisak.bsky.social, @christianbuchel.bsky.social) published a commentary on Chowdhury, Bi et al. (2025, JAMA Neurology) raising serious concerns about their reported results.
👇 1/13
Reposted by Alina Panzel
Our new paper out in @NatureNeuro. We uncovered the roles of orbitofrontal cortex in distinct aspects of meta-reinforcement learning. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Meta-reinforcement learning via orbitofrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience
The authors show that neural activity and synaptic plasticity in the orbitofrontal cortex mediate multiple timescales of reinforcement learning (RL) for meta-RL, which parallels a form of meta-RL in a...
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November 14, 2023 at 9:15 PM
Our new paper out in @NatureNeuro. We uncovered the roles of orbitofrontal cortex in distinct aspects of meta-reinforcement learning. www.nature.com/articles/s41...