January 8, 2021

In this episode, Diana Bautista, Mark Hoon, Nick Betley, and Adam Hantman debate how somatosensory modalities are encoded by the nervous system. Are there labeled lines or is it by population coding? Does it depend on where in the nervous system- brain, spinal cord, or periphery?

For the fifth episode, The Pain Beat gathered together a group of pain researchers virtually to discuss how the mammalian nervous system encodes sensory modalities related to touch, pain and temperature. Are there labeled lines? Is there population coding? Do the mechanisms differ by location - the brain, spinal cord or periphery?