Lene Baad‐Hansen
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Lene Baad-Hansen is a leading researcher in orofacial pain and somatosensory neuroscience, with a particular focus on how touch and pain are processed in the facial region. Her work bridges experimental pain models, psychophysics, and clinical assessment, contributing significantly to our understanding of trigeminal pain mechanisms and sensory testing methodologies. A notable contribution is her investigation of how slow, pleasant stroking touch—known to reduce thermal pain on the forearm—affects pain perception when applied to the face. Her 2021 study on robotic stroking revealed that long-lasting facial touch can induce satiety and modulate mechanical pain, challenging assumptions about the universality of touch-induced analgesia. With over 5 citations for this work alone, Baad-Hansen’s research has helped refine quantitative sensory testing protocols for orofacial conditions, influencing both clinical diagnostics and experimental design. Her achievements include advancing the use of robotic stimulation to standardize tactile delivery, and her findings have implications for treating chronic facial pain and understanding the unique sensory processing of the trigeminal system.
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