Sarasa Tohyama
Sarasa is currently a MSc student with the Institute of Medical Science and the Collaborative Program in Neuroscience at the University of Toronto. As an undergraduate student at McGill, Sarasa examined placebo responses in pain clinical trials under the supervision of Dr. Jeffrey Mogil. Thereafter, she worked as a research technician in Dr. Loren Martin's pain lab at the University of Toronto, where she examined the neurobiology of placebo analgesia using a mouse model.
Sarasa's research now focuses on how emotion related brain structure, function, and behaviour are associated with chronic neuropathic facial pain using a multimodal neuroimaging approach. She is particularly interested in uncovering the unique brain signatures that associate emotional processing with chronic facial pain syndromes.
In her spare time, Sarasa enjoys yoga, basketball, and eating sushi.
Sarasa's research now focuses on how emotion related brain structure, function, and behaviour are associated with chronic neuropathic facial pain using a multimodal neuroimaging approach. She is particularly interested in uncovering the unique brain signatures that associate emotional processing with chronic facial pain syndromes.
In her spare time, Sarasa enjoys yoga, basketball, and eating sushi.