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Louisien Lebrun (Hôpital Erasme) - former PhD student

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Former PhD student at NOCIONS. My PhD was conducted in the framework of an Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI PAIN-CARE; https://www.imi-paincare.eu) project, subtopic BioPain. The aim was to identify and validate a number of functional biomarkers based on non-invasive measures of neural activity (peripheral measures of nerve excitability, spinal and brainstem reflexes, measures of brain activity using electroencephalography [EEG] and functional magnetic resonance imaging [MRI] that can be used in humans to assess the effects of a given drug on the nociceptive system. These biomarkers could be used in future studies for the early stages of the pharmacological development of novel treatments for pain, and back-translated to animal models.

Publications

2025

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Interindividual variations in peak alpha frequency do not predict the magnitude or extent of secondary hyperalgesia induced by high-frequency stimulation

J Neurophysiol

Lebrun L, Ricci G, Courtin A, van den Broeke EN, Lenoir C, Mouraux A

in press

2025

Repeated exposure to cutaneous high-frequency electrical stimulation prolongs the time course of secondary hyperalgesia

J Neurophysiol

Lebrun L, Stouffs A, Hermans E, van den Broeke E, Leone CM, Caspani O, Truini A, Garcia-Larrea L, Treede RD, Mouraux A.

in press

2025

Strength, extent and duration of secondary hyperalgesia induced by high-frequency electrical stimulation of the foot compared to the volar forearm of healthy human volunteers

PLoS One

Lebrun L, Lenoir C, Leone C, van den Broeke EN, Caspani O, Schilder A, Pelz B, Truini A, Treede RD, Mouraux A

20(2):e0318934.

2019

Heterosynaptic facilitation of mechanical nociceptive input is dependent on the frequency of conditioning stimulation

Journal of Neurophysiology

van den Broeke EN, Gousset S, Bouvy J, Stouffs A, Lebrun L, van Neerven SGA, Mouraux A.

122(3):994-1001

2019

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IMI-PAINCARE, BIOPAIN : validation chez l'homme de nouveaux biomarqueurs fonctionnels pour le développement pharmacologique de traitements de la douleur

Douleur et Analgésie

Stouffs A, Lebrun L, Mouraux A.

31(4): 230

Institute of Neuroscience (IONS) - Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)

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