India Morrison

Senior Associate Professor

Research

The Morrison Lab

The Morrison Lab: Embodied Brain Lab investigates emotional and social aspects of both touch and pain, and how these influence - and are influenced by - behavior.

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The Morrison Lab: The Embodied Brain Lab.

The brain reacts differently to touch depending on context

The touch of another person may increase levels of the “feelgood” hormone oxytocin. But the context really matters. The situation impacts oxytocin levels not only in the moment, but also later, as is shown in a new study.

The award winner: “A window to the secret processes in the brain”

India Morrison, senior associate professor in cognitive neuroscience, has won the Onkel Adam Award for her outstanding research at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. One of her research areas is how touch and pain affect our behaviour.

SEK 35 million for research at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Four LiU researchers will receive a total of SEK 18 million in project grants from the Swedish Research Council within humanities and social sciences. A further SEK 17 million has been awarded to a research environment in migration and integration.

Related Research

The Olausson Lab

Human touch is a powerful way of evoking emotions. What is the functional significance of the system for ultrafast nociceptors that we recently discovered? How does the nervous system distinguish social and self-touch? Our lab is looking for answers.

The Brain and the Nervous System

Research on the nervous system has made great strides in recent years. At Linköping University we are focusing among other things on the research on addictions, dementia and hearing disorders.

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Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at LiU

WCMM at LiU focuses on the medicine-technology interface, and build upon our existing strengths in research within medical technology, materials science and bioengineering.

Organisation

Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience - CSAN

Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience (CSAN) integrates knowledge and methodology from different areas of basic and clinical neuroscience.

Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV)

What characterizes the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV) is the wide breadth of research and education. BKV is one of the largest departments at LiU with affiliation mainly to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

India Morrison

Research

The Morrison Lab

Publications

2023

2022

2021

News

The brain reacts differently to touch depending on context

The award winner: “A window to the secret processes in the brain”

SEK 35 million for research at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The importance of touch

Related Research

The Olausson Lab

The Brain and the Nervous System

Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at LiU

Organisation

Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience - CSAN

Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV)

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India Morrison

Research

The Morrison Lab

Publications

2023

2022

2021

News

The brain reacts differently to touch depending on context

The award winner: “A window to the secret processes in the brain”

SEK 35 million for research at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The importance of touch

Related Research

The Olausson Lab

The Brain and the Nervous System

Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at LiU

Organisation

Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience - CSAN

Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV)

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