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		+	'''Personal Details''' <br>
-	==First Steps==	+	Researcher’s Name: Chee-Wee, Tan <br>
-	The username and password for the administrative account is '''admin''', '''admin'''.	+	Position: PhD research student <br>
-	#<font color="red">Important:</font> [[Special:Userlogin|Log in]] as admin and go to [[Special:Preferences|Preferences]] to change your password!	+	University: Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh <br>
-	#On this page: [[image_logo_url]] put just the url for the logo.	+	School: School of Health Sciences <br>
-	#Add the url for your wiki to the [http://www.editthis.info/wiki/index.php/Categorized_Wiki_List Categorized wiki list]. Simply edit that page and put your wiki under the appropriate category.	+	Subject Area: Physiotherapy <br>
-	#To increase the amount of space you have for uploads, add links to http://editthis.info from external sites, and go to the [http://editthis.info/wiki/index.php/Link_Quota_Page Link Quota Page] to increase your uploads quota.	+	Room: S09, Leith Campus <br>
		+	Phone: (+44) 0131 3173665 <br>
		+	Email: ctan@qmuc.ac.uk <br>
-	==Other optional things to do==	+	'''
-	*Edit [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] to change the navigation menu	+	Research interests:'''
-	*Add this wiki to some external wiki indexes:	+
-	#[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki Wikipedia list of wikis]	+	Pain psychophysics, the role of attention in chronic pain, Signal Detection Theory.
-	#[http://www.wikiindex.com/Add_a_Wiki WikiIndex]<br>	+
-	*If you are feeling adventurous and know a little about web design you can edit the  javascript and css to the [[Header]] to change the look of your wiki.	+	Current research:
-	**You must log as admin to do this	+
-	**Whatever you enter in this page will be added to the html in the header after the standard style sheet, so you can override styles.	+	I am currently investigation the use of signal detection theory as an experimental paradigm to assess to influence of pain on attentional capacity. The modality of experimental pain induction is thermal stimulation. The working hypothesis is that as the temperatures of the stimuli increase, the associated magnitude of pain increases correspondingly. In doing so, the increased magnitude of pain may disrupt the attentional capacity of the observer such that the discrimination ability is reduced. This will be reflected in the observer’s lower sensitivity for the discrimination task. It may be that chronic pain sufferers perform poorer on discrimination tasks due to the disruptive nature of their clinical pain. However, further research is warranted to understand the mechanism for this disruptive nature of pain.
-	*Read the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for other usage and configuration help.	+
-	*Add your wiki to the [http://editthis.info/wiki/index.php/Map_of_wikis map of wikis]	+
		+	'''For Colleagues''':
		+
		+	Events:<br>
		+	QMUC Pain Seminars (~~Next semester programmes to be announced~~)
		+
		+	'''
		+	For Fellow Research students:'''
		+
		+	I’ve not been the office a lot due to research commitments. If you need any software or materials, please email me (ctan@qmuc.ac.uk) and I’ll try to get back to you. Or if you just want to go out for a cuppa, by all means call me. I won’t post my tel no. here, you guys should have it anyway.
		+
		+
		+	'''For Students:'''
		+
		+	The materials for your modules and recommended readings are categorized according to the topics. Click on the links to download the materials.
		+
		+
		+	'''Useful Links:'''
		+	International Association for the Study of Pain - http://www.iasp-pain.org <br>
		+	International Society for Psychophysics - http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~isp/isp/isp.htm

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Pain Psychophysics

Personal Details

Researcher’s Name: Chee-Wee, Tan
Position: PhD research student
University: Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh
School: School of Health Sciences
Subject Area: Physiotherapy
Room: S09, Leith Campus
Phone: (+44) 0131 3173665
Email: ctan@qmuc.ac.uk

Research interests:

Pain psychophysics, the role of attention in chronic pain, Signal Detection Theory.

Current research:

I am currently investigation the use of signal detection theory as an experimental paradigm to assess to influence of pain on attentional capacity. The modality of experimental pain induction is thermal stimulation. The working hypothesis is that as the temperatures of the stimuli increase, the associated magnitude of pain increases correspondingly. In doing so, the increased magnitude of pain may disrupt the attentional capacity of the observer such that the discrimination ability is reduced. This will be reflected in the observer’s lower sensitivity for the discrimination task. It may be that chronic pain sufferers perform poorer on discrimination tasks due to the disruptive nature of their clinical pain. However, further research is warranted to understand the mechanism for this disruptive nature of pain.

For Colleagues:

Events:
QMUC Pain Seminars (~~Next semester programmes to be announced~~)

For Fellow Research students:

I’ve not been the office a lot due to research commitments. If you need any software or materials, please email me (ctan@qmuc.ac.uk) and I’ll try to get back to you. Or if you just want to go out for a cuppa, by all means call me. I won’t post my tel no. here, you guys should have it anyway.

For Students:

The materials for your modules and recommended readings are categorized according to the topics. Click on the links to download the materials.

Useful Links: International Association for the Study of Pain - http://www.iasp-pain.org
International Society for Psychophysics - http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~isp/isp/isp.htm