Sensory and motor neuroscience at BSMS encompasses research into pain, audition, and motor systems.
Within the area of sensory neuroscience, our research interests include the peripheral neuroinflammatory mechanisms that underlie chronic pain, as well as the relationship between connective tissue disorders and central pain processing. Our research interests also include understanding the physiological mechanisms underlying development and maturation of the auditory inner ear and various forms of hearing loss and deafness. Within the area of motor neuroscience, we are interested in understanding how during development neuronal circuits controlling specialised behaviour develop and diversify. Together, these research areas combine a range of state-of-the-art laboratory techniques that include electrophysiology, cellular and molecular biology, behavioural studies, as well as neuroimaging and human physiological testing.