Name:
Michael J. Farrell
Email: michael.farrell(at)florey.edu.au
Qualifications:
- BAppSc(Phty) (1983) Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences
- MSc(Gerontology) (1993) La Trobe University
- PhD (1999) University of Melbourne
Position:
- Laboratory Head, Interoception Laboratory, Neuroimaging and Neuroinformatics Group, Howard Florey Institute
- Sir Randal Heymanson Fellow, for research into the causes and alleviation of physical pain, Centre for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne
- Honorary Fellow, National Ageing Research Institute
Affiliations or relevant memberships:
- Member, International Association for the Study of Pain
- Member, Organization for Human Brain Mapping
- Member, Australian Neuroscience Society
- Chair, Australian Pain Society Scientific Committee
Research Interests:
Functional brain imaging of interoceptive sensations including thirst, pain, hunger, urge to cough and thermosensation
Ageing changes and age-related disease effects on central pain processing
Selected Publications:
Farrell, M.J., Zammarripa, F., Phillips, P.A., McKinley, M., Fox, P., Denton, D., Egan, G.F. Effect of aging on regional cerebral blood flow responses associated with osmotic thirst and its satiation by water drinking: a PET study, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(1) (2008) 382-387
Mazzone, S.B., McLennan, L., McGovern, A.E., Egan, G.E., Farrell, M.J. Representation of capsaicin-evoked urge-to-cough in human brain using functional MRI, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 176(4) (2007) 327-32
Cole, L.J., Farrell, M.J., Duff, E.P., Barber, J.B., Egan, G.F., Gibson, S.J., Pain sensitivity and fMRI pain-related brain activity in Alzheimer’s disease, Brain, 129(11) (2006) 2957-65
Farrell, M.J., Egan, G.F., Zamarripa, F., Shade, R., Blair-West, J., Fox, P., Denton, D. A. Unique, common and interacting cortical correlates of thirst and pain, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103(7) (2006) 2416-21
McAllen, R.M., Farrell, M., Johnson, J.M., Trevaks, D., Cole, L., McKinley. M.J., Jackson, G., Denton, D.A., Egan, G.F. Human medullary responses to cooling and rewarming the skin: A functional MRI study, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103(3) (2006) 809-813
Farrell, M.J., Laird, A., Egan, G.F., Brain activity associated with painfully hot stimuli applied to the upper limb: a meta-analysis, Human Brain Mapping 25 (2005) 129-139
Gibson, S.J., Farrell, M.J., A review of age differences in the neurophysiology of nociception and the perceptual experience of pain, Clinical Journal of Pain 20 (2004) 227-239
Farrell, M.J., Katz, B. and Helme, R.D., The impact of dementia on the pain experience, Pain 67 (1996) 7-15