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• workRoom W/B1439 Queen’s Medical Centre
  Queen's Medical Centre
  Nottingham
  NG7 2UH
  UK
• Duncan.Hodkinson@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

I performed my undergraduate studies in Biochemistry. During this time, I became fascinated with neuroscience and decided to pursue graduate studies in applied neuroscience for which I was awarded a 3-year PhD Studentship from the Medical Research Council (MRC). I have a broad background in neuroscience, but the theme of systems neuroscience has been a passion throughout my academic career with postdoctoral fellowship positions in Clinical Neuroscience at King's College London (2012-2015) and Anaesthesia at Boston Children's Hospital (2015-2016). From 2016 I was joint faculty appointed in the Department of Anaesthesia at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School as Instructor of Anaesthetic Science. In 2019 I joined the University of Nottingham as NIHR BRC Senior Research Fellow in Pain Neuroscience.

Expertise Summary

My primary interests are studying neural plasticity in the human brain including structural and functional changes that occur in health and disease. I have a particular interest in homeostasis, pain, and the response to analgesia (pain relief). I am also interested in the signs and symptoms that accompany many clinical pain states. As a basic scientist my approach consists of combining advanced neuroimaging techniques with physiological and subjective behavioural measures to gain insight into the function of the central nervous system. My wider research goals are to deliver novel methods and techniques that can be used to translate research between experimental studies and clinical science, with a view to identifying novel treatment therapies, medical procedures, or diagnostics.

I am pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students.

Recent Publications

• HODKINSON DJ, MONGERSON CRL, JENNINGS RW and BAJIC D, 2019. Neonatal functional brain maturation in the context of perioperative critical care and pain management: A case report. Heliyon. 5(8), e02350
• HODKINSON DJ, LEE D, BECERRA L and BORSOOK D, 2019. Scale-free amplitude modulation of low-frequency fluctuations in episodic migraine. Pain. 160(10), 2298-2304
• HODKINSON DJ, VEGGEBERG R, KUCYI A, VAN DIJK KR, WILCOX SL, SCRIVANI SJ, BURSTEIN R, BECERRA L and BORSOOK D, 2017. Cortico-Cortical Connections of Primary Sensory Areas and Associated Symptoms in Migraine. eNeuro. 3(6),
• WILCOX SL, VEGGEBERG R, LEMME J, HODKINSON DJ, SCRIVANI S, BURSTEIN R, BECERRA L and BORSOOK D, 2016. Increased Functional Activation of Limbic Brain Regions during Negative Emotional Processing in Migraine. Frontiers in human neuroscience. 10, 366

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• HODKINSON DJ, MONGERSON CRL, JENNINGS RW and BAJIC D, 2019. Neonatal functional brain maturation in the context of perioperative critical care and pain management: A case report. Heliyon. 5(8), e02350
• HODKINSON DJ, LEE D, BECERRA L and BORSOOK D, 2019. Scale-free amplitude modulation of low-frequency fluctuations in episodic migraine. Pain. 160(10), 2298-2304
• HODKINSON DJ, VEGGEBERG R, KUCYI A, VAN DIJK KR, WILCOX SL, SCRIVANI SJ, BURSTEIN R, BECERRA L and BORSOOK D, 2017. Cortico-Cortical Connections of Primary Sensory Areas and Associated Symptoms in Migraine. eNeuro. 3(6),
• WILCOX SL, VEGGEBERG R, LEMME J, HODKINSON DJ, SCRIVANI S, BURSTEIN R, BECERRA L and BORSOOK D, 2016. Increased Functional Activation of Limbic Brain Regions during Negative Emotional Processing in Migraine. Frontiers in human neuroscience. 10, 366
• HODKINSON DJ, WILCOX SL, VEGGEBERG R, NOSEDA R, BURSTEIN R, BORSOOK D and BECERRA L, 2016. Increased Amplitude of Thalamocortical Low-Frequency Oscillations in Patients with Migraine. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 36(30), 8026-36
• HODKINSON DJ, VEGGEBERG R, WILCOX SL, SCRIVANI S, BURSTEIN R, BECERRA L and BORSOOK D, 2015. Primary Somatosensory Cortices Contain Altered Patterns of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow in the Interictal Phase of Migraine. PloS one. 10(9), e0137971
• HODKINSON DJ, KHAWAJA N, OʼDALY O, THACKER MA, ZELAYA FO, WOOLDRIDGE CL, RENTON TF, WILLIAMS SC and HOWARD MA, 2015. Cerebral analgesic response to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug ibuprofen. Pain. 156(7), 1301-10
• O'MUIRCHEARTAIGH J, MARQUAND A, HODKINSON DJ, KRAUSE K, KHAWAJA N, RENTON TF, HUGGINS JP, VENNART W, WILLIAMS SC and HOWARD MA, 2014. Multivariate decoding of cerebral blood flow measures in a clinical model of on-going postsurgical pain. Human brain mapping. 36(2), 633-42
• HODKINSON DJ, O'DALY O, ZUNSZAIN PA, PARIANTE CM, LAZURENKO V, ZELAYA FO, HOWARD MA and WILLIAMS SC, 2014. Circadian and homeostatic modulation of functional connectivity and regional cerebral blood flow in humans under normal entrained conditions. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism. 34(9), 1493-9
• HODKINSON DJ, KRAUSE K, KHAWAJA N, RENTON TF, HUGGINS JP, VENNART W, THACKER MA, MEHTA MA, ZELAYA FO, WILLIAMS SC and HOWARD MA, 2013. Quantifying the test-retest reliability of cerebral blood flow measurements in a clinical model of on-going post-surgical pain: A study using pseudo-continuous arterial spin labelling. NeuroImage. Clinical. 3, 301-310
• DODD GT, WORTH AA, HODKINSON DJ, SRIVASTAVA RK, LUTZ B, WILLIAMS SR and LUCKMAN SM, 2013. Central functional response to the novel peptide cannabinoid, hemopressin. Neuropharmacology. 71, 27-36
• HODKINSON DJ, DE GROOTE C, MCKIE S, DEAKIN JF and WILLIAMS SR, 2012. Differential Effects of Anaesthesia on the phMRI Response to Acute Ketamine Challenge. British journal of medicine and medical research. 2(3), 373-385