My work aims to understand how the brain and body interact to create the experience of pain, and why some people might be prone to develop pain while others are relatively resilient. I am especially interested  in the biological mechanisms that underlie cognitive and affective responses to pain and how this knowledge might help us treat pain.

Zeidan F, Salomons TV, Farris S, Emerson N, Adler-Neal A, Jung Y, Coghill R, (In Press) Neural mechanisms supporting the relationship between dispositional mindfulness and pain. Pain

Salomons TV, (In Press) Pain as an embodied emotion. In Fox AS, Lapate RC, Shackman AJ & Davidson RJ (Eds). The nature of emotion. Fundamental questions (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

Salomons TV, Iannetti G, Liang M, Wood J (2016) The pain matrix in pain free individuals. JAMA Neurology 73(6):755-6

Salomons TV, Nusslock R, Detloff A, Johnstone T, Davidson RJ, (2015) Emotion regulation circuitry underlying anxiolytic effects of perceived control over pain. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 27(2): 222-33

Salomons TV, Moayedi M, Erpelding N, Davis KD, (2014) A brief cognitive-behavioural intervention for pain reduces secondary hyperalgesia.  Pain 155(8): 1446-52.