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Overview

Ben Seymour is a researcher affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, specializing primarily in medicine and neuroscience. Their scholarly work spans multiple subfields including cognitive neuroscience, physiology, pharmacology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and neurology.

The main topics of Seymour's research encompass pain mechanisms and treatments, pain management and placebo effect, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, heart rate variability and autonomic control, neural dynamics and brain function, functional brain connectivity studies, and fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research.

Several frequent coauthors have collaborated with Seymour, including Flavia Mancini, Pranav Mahajan, Mitsuo Kawato, Takufumi Yanagisawa, and Jakub Onysk. These partnerships reflect cross-disciplinary engagement in their scientific investigations.

Seymour regularly publishes in multiple venues, with significant numbers of publications appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, Frontiers in Pain Research, Scientific Reports, and Brain. These platforms indicate a focus on accessible, open, and peer-reviewed scientific dissemination.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Seymour include:

  • A multi-site, multi-disorder resting-state magnetic resonance image database, 2021, Scientific Data
  • Primary functional brain connections associated with melancholic major depressive disorder and modulation by antidepressants, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Hierarchical models of pain: Inference, information-seeking, and adaptive control, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Multimodal physiological sensing for the assessment of acute pain, 2023, Frontiers in Pain Research
  • Pain Control by Co-adaptive Learning in a Brain-Machine Interface, 2020, Current Biology

Their research contributes to understanding complex brain functions and physiological processes related to acute and chronic pain, the mechanisms of pain modulation, and the role of brain connectivity in neurological conditions. This work situates Seymour's efforts at the intersection of neuroscience, clinical medicine, and biomedical engineering.

Best Publications

  • Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not Sensory Components of Pain

    Tania Singer;Ben Seymour;John O'Doherty;Holger Kaube

  • Cortical substrates for exploratory decisions in humans

    Nathaniel D. Daw;John P. O'Doherty;Peter Dayan;Ben Seymour

  • Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others

    Tania Singer;Ben Seymour;John P. O'Doherty;Klaas E. Stephan

  • Frames, biases, and rational decision-making in the human brain

    Benedetto De Martino;Dharshan Kumaran;Ben Seymour;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Model-based influences on humans' choices and striatal prediction errors.

    Nathaniel D. Daw;Samuel J. Gershman;Ben Seymour;Peter Dayan

  • Dopamine-dependent prediction errors underpin reward-seeking behaviour in humans

    Mathias Pessiglione;Ben Seymour;Guillaume Flandin;Raymond J. Dolan

  • When Fear Is Near: Threat Imminence Elicits Prefrontal-Periaqueductal Gray Shifts in Humans

    Dean Mobbs;Predrag Petrovic;Jennifer L. Marchant;Demis Hassabis

  • Temporal difference models describe higher-order learning in humans

    Ben Seymour;John P. O'Doherty;Peter Dayan;Martin Koltzenburg

  • Context-Dependent Human Extinction Memory is Mediated by a Ventromedial Prefrontal and Hippocampal Network.

    Raffael Kalisch;Elian Korenfeld;Klaas Enno Stephan;Nikolaus Weiskopf

  • From Threat to Fear: The Neural Organization of Defensive Fear Systems in Humans

    Dean Mobbs;Jennifer L. Marchant;Demis Hassabis;Ben Seymour

  • Differential encoding of losses and gains in the human striatum

    Ben Seymour;Nathaniel Daw;Peter Dayan;Tania Singer

  • Opponent appetitive-aversive neural processes underlie predictive learning of pain relief.

    Ben Seymour;John P. O'Doherty;Martin Koltzenburg;Katja Wiech

  • The misbehavior of value and the discipline of the will

    Peter Dayan;Yael Niv;Ben Seymour;Nathaniel D. Daw

  • Predictive Neural Coding of Reward Preference Involves Dissociable Responses in Human Ventral Midbrain and Ventral Striatum

    John P. O'Doherty;John P. O'Doherty;Tony W. Buchanan;Ben Seymour;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Anxiety Reduction through Detachment: Subjective, Physiological, and Neural Effects

    Raffael Kalisch;Katja Wiech;Hugo D. Critchley;Ben Seymour

  • Dopamine, Time, and Impulsivity in Humans

    Alex Pine;Tamara Shiner;Ben Seymour;Raymond J. Dolan

  • The neurobiology of punishment

    Ben Seymour;Tania Singer;Raymond Dolan

  • A Key Role for Similarity in Vicarious Reward

    Dean Mobbs;Rongjun Yu;Marcel Meyer;Marcel Meyer;Luca Passamonti

  • Human Pavlovian–Instrumental Transfer

    Deborah Talmi;Ben Seymour;Peter Dayan;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Emotion, decision making, and the amygdala

    B. Seymour;Raymond J. Dolan

  • The Role of Human Orbitofrontal Cortex in Value Comparison for Incommensurable Objects

    Thomas H B FitzGerald;Ben Seymour;Raymond J Dolan

  • Dopamine and performance in a reinforcement learning task: evidence from Parkinson's disease.

    Tamara Shiner;Ben Seymour;Klaus Wunderlich;Ciaran Hill

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Mitsuo Kawato
Mitsuo Kawato Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
Nathaniel D. Daw
Nathaniel D. Daw Princeton University
John P. O'Doherty
John P. O'Doherty California Institute of Technology
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
Jonathan P. Roiser
Jonathan P. Roiser University College London
Noriaki Yahata
Noriaki Yahata National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
Dean Mobbs
Dean Mobbs California Institute of Technology
Youichi Saitoh
Youichi Saitoh Osaka University
Nick Chater
Nick Chater University of Warwick

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