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Directors
Richard Ohrbach, DDS, PhD
| Our research group focuses on several intersecting
questions, all of which revolve around the interrelationship between pain
and function, particularly as viewed within the spectrum of chronic pain
in general. Broader issues that frame our research activities include the
study of disability, clinical studies and experimental psychophysiological
approaches to understanding the role of cognitive and affective components
of stress as they relate to chronic pain experience and chronicity, the
inclusion of phenomenological perspectives in the understanding of the individual's
response to pain, determinants of motor behavior and its peripheral organization,
and more basic concerns such as measurement and design issues. Clinical
outcomes, through our University Orofacial Pain & Oral Medicine clinical
practice, are also an area of interest, particularly longitudinal outcomes
and the factors that predict those outcomes. Comparative treatment studies
are of interest, especially those that are explore theoretical mechanisms
of efficacy.
Current projects
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| Members | |
| Yoly M Gonzalez, DDS, MS | Clinical Epidemiology |
| Scott McCall, PhD | Neuroscience |
| Richard Ohrbach, DDS, PhD | Clinical psychology |
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