Marco Loggia

Marco Loggia
Born
Marco Luciano Loggia

January 6, 1979
Vizzolo Predabissi (Milan, Italy)
CitizenshipItalian
Alma materMcGill University, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Scientific career
FieldsBrain Imaging, Pain, Neuroscience

Marco Loggia is a US-based Italian neuroscientist who specializes in brain imaging. He is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and directs the Pain and Neuroinflammation Imaging Laboratory, located at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He is also the co-director of the Center of Integrative Pain NeuroImaging (CiPNI) at MGH.[1] He is known for his work on brain mechanisms of pain, especially using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)[2][3] and positron emission tomography (PET).[4][5] He has been a pioneer in the use of Arterial Spin Labeling[6][7] and second-generation TSPO PET ligands for the study of chronic pain.[4][5] He is a Section Editor for the journal PAIN, and also serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Pain and Pain Medicine. His work has been highlighted by many media outlets, including Popular Science,[8] New Scientist,[9] Scientific American,[10] ABC News,[11] la Repubblica,[12] Sky TG24,[13] the Harvard Gazette[14] and others.

  1. ^ "Marco L. Loggia, PhD". loggialab.mgh.harvard.edu.
  2. ^ Loggia, Marco L.; Kim, Jieun; Gollub, Randy L.; Vangel, Mark G.; Kirsch, Irving; Kong, Jian; Wasan, Ajay D.; Napadow, Vitaly (January 1, 2013). "Default mode network connectivity encodes clinical pain: An arterial spin labeling study". Pain. 154 (1): 24–33. doi:10.1016/j.pain.2012.07.029. PMC 3534957. PMID 23111164.
  3. ^ Loggia, Marco L.; Berna, Chantal; Kim, Jieun; Cahalan, Christine M.; Gollub, Randy L.; Wasan, Ajay D.; Harris, Richard E.; Edwards, Robert R.; Napadow, Vitaly (October 4, 2014). "Disrupted Brain Circuitry for Pain-Related Reward/Punishment in Fibromyalgia". Arthritis & Rheumatology. 66 (1): 203–212. doi:10.1002/art.38191. PMC 4516215. PMID 24449585.
  4. ^ a b Loggia, Marco L.; Chonde, Daniel B.; Akeju, Oluwaseun; Arabasz, Grae; Catana, Ciprian; Edwards, Robert R.; Hill, Elena; Hsu, Shirley; Izquierdo-Garcia, David; Ji, Ru-Rong; Riley, Misha; Wasan, Ajay D.; Zürcher, Nicole R.; Albrecht, Daniel S.; Vangel, Mark G.; Rosen, Bruce R.; Napadow, Vitaly; Hooker, Jacob M. (March 1, 2015). "Evidence for brain glial activation in chronic pain patients". Brain. 138 (3): 604–615. doi:10.1093/brain/awu377. PMC 4339770. PMID 25582579.
  5. ^ a b Albrecht, Daniel S.; Forsberg, Anton; Sandström, Angelica; Bergan, Courtney; Kadetoff, Diana; Protsenko, Ekaterina; Lampa, Jon; Lee, Yvonne C.; Höglund, Caroline Olgart; Catana, Ciprian; Cervenka, Simon; Akeju, Oluwaseun; Lekander, Mats; Cohen, George; Halldin, Christer; Taylor, Norman; Kim, Minhae; Hooker, Jacob M.; Edwards, Robert R.; Napadow, Vitaly; Kosek, Eva; Loggia, Marco L. (January 1, 2019). "Brain glial activation in fibromyalgia – A multi-site positron emission tomography investigation". Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. 75: 72–83. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2018.09.018. PMC 6541932. PMID 30223011.
  6. ^ Wasan, Ajay D.; Loggia, Marco L.; Chen, Li Q.; Napadow, Vitaly; Kong, Jian; Gollub, Randy L. (August 1, 2011). "Neural Correlates of Chronic Low Back Pain Measured by Arterial Spin Labeling". Anesthesiology. 115 (2): 364–374. doi:10.1097/ALN.0b013e318220e880. PMC 3286828. PMID 21720241.
  7. ^ Loggia, Marco Luciano; Segerdahl, Andrew Reilly; Howard, Matthew Alexander; Tracey, Irene (May 15, 2019). "Imaging Clinically Relevant Pain States Using Arterial Spin Labeling". Pain Reports. 4 (4): e750. doi:10.1097/PR9.0000000000000750. PMC 6690842. PMID 31406952.
  8. ^ "A New Kind Of Brain Scan Can See Your Pain, Literally". Popular Science. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  9. ^ "Hurt blocker: To treat chronic pain, look to the brain not body". www.newscientist.com. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  10. ^ "Chronic Pain Associated with Activation of Brain's Glial Cells". Scientific American. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  11. ^ "'Seeing' Lower Back Pain in the Brain". ABC News. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  12. ^ Aluffi, Giuliano. "il Venerdì' di Repubblica". Retrieved Oct 4, 2019.
  13. ^ "Un'infiammazione cerebrale tra le cause della fibromialgia | Sky TG24". tg24.sky.it. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  14. ^ "Breakthrough on chronic pain". Harvard Gazette. 2015-01-12. Retrieved 2019-10-04.