Titilola Akintola, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Staff Scientist
SCHOOL OF NURSING
Research Interests
- Placebo analgesia: incidence in chronic orofacial pain (TMD)
- The effects of genetics and psychological traits on pain perception
- The effects of race and ethnicity on pain sensitivity & management
- Non-opioid therapies for chronic pain
Research Approaches
- Human behavioral studies (Pain sensitivity assessment)
- Psychological surveys & Psychometrics
- Genomics (DNA, hormon analysis, Genome-Wide Association Studies)
- Proteomics
Publications
- Akintola, T., Raver, C., Studlack, P., Uddin, O., Masri, R., & Keller, A. (2017). "The grimace scale reliably assesses chronic pain in a rodent model of trigeminal neuropathic pain." Neurobiology of Pain, 2, 13-17.
- Loane, DJ., Stoica, BA., Tchantchou, F., Kumar, A., Barrett, JP., Akintola, T., Xue, F., Conn, PJ., Faden, AI. (2014). "Novel mGluR5 positive allosteric modulator improves functional recovery, attenuates neurodegeneration, and alters microglial polarization after experimental traumatic brain injury." Neurotherapeutics, 4, 857 - 69.
