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Andrea Hohmann
Associate Professor of Psychology
Creative Research Medal 2006
Andrea Hohmann, Associate Professor of Psychology, focuses on the role of cannabinoids – the brains own marijuana-like system – in suppressing pain. She combines multiple techniques to study pain modulation from a neuroscience perspective, and is interested in improving understanding of how an edogneous cannabinoid system contributes to mechanisms of pain suppression. She has indicated an enzyme that deactivates a marijuana-like compound in the brain called 2-AG as a therapeutic target for pain and stress-related disorders. This new peripheral technique could result in treatments that do not have the adverse side effects often associated with treatments that directly involve the central nervous system.
Source: 27th Annual Research Awards Program (2006)
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