Sukhbinder Kumar, PhD

Research Assistant Professor
Department
Neurosurgery
Biography

Current Positions

  • Research Assistant Professor - Neurosurgery

Education

  • PhD, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)
  • Master of Technology, Birla Institute of Technology and Science , Pilani, (India).
  • Bachelor of Technology, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur (India)
  • Bachelor of Science, B.Sc, Punjabi University Patiala (India)

Research Interests

  • Representation and processing of respiration and cardiac signals in the brain (Interoception)
  • Emotions processing and its brain mechanism: a. Role of expectations and beliefs (topdown factors) in modulating emotional experience. b. What are the brain areas/mechanism which mediate this modulation?
  • Interoception and its relation to emotions processing.
  • Disorder of emotion processing and its relation to Interoception: Brain mechanism of misophonia (a disorder in which ordinary day-today- stimuli, typically sounds cause abnormally high distress
Research areas
  • Misophonia
  • Auditory cortex
  • Auditory working memory
  • Hearing loss
  • Emotion
  • Emotions processing
  • Interoception
  • Electrocorticography
Sukhbinder Kumar
Address

414 Medical Research Center (MRC)
Iowa City, IA 52242
United States

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