Published work

Research from the
Brown University team.

Soma Care is built by researchers with peer-reviewed publications spanning pain neuroscience, computational modelling, interoception, and precision medicine.

Altered Decision-Making Across Acute and Chronic Pain States: A Bias Towards Context-Dependent Valuations

Williams CC, Owen LLW, Gunsilius C, Nassar MR, Petzschner FH

bioRxiv, 2025

Practical Challenges for Precision Medicine

Petzschner FH

Science, 2024

SOMAScience: A Novel Platform for Multidimensional, Longitudinal Pain Assessment

Gunsilius CZ et al.

JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2024

Paying Attention to Attention: A Program Evaluation of Faculty-Delivered Mindfulness-Based Attention Training

Gunsilius CZ, Price MM, Rogers SL, Flynn E, Jha AP

BMC Medical Education, 2024

Individual Treatment Expectations Predict Clinical Outcome After Lumbar Injections Against Low Back Pain

Müller-Schrader M, Heinzle J, Müller A, … Petzschner FH, Wiech K, Barth J et al.

Pain, 2023

A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial Comparing Effects of Qigong and Exercise/Nutrition Training on Fatigue and Other Outcomes in Female Cancer Survivors

Zimmerman CS, Temereanca S, Daniels D, Penner C, Cannonier T, Jones SR, Kerr C

Integrative Cancer Therapies, 2023

"Honorable Toward Your Whole Self": Experiences of the Body in Fatigued Breast Cancer Survivors

Penner C*, Zimmerman C*, Conboy L, Kaptchuk T, Kerr C

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020

Distinct Insular Functional Connectivity Changes Related to Mood and Fatigue Improvements in Major Depressive Disorder Following Tai Chi Training

Xu A*, Zimmerman CS*, Lazar SW, Ma Y, Kerr CE, Yeung A

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2020

Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap

Khalsa SS, Adolphs R, Cameron OG, Critchley HD, … Petzschner FH et al.

Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 2018

Computational Psychosomatics and Computational Psychiatry: Toward a Joint Framework for Differential Diagnosis

Petzschner FH, Weber LAE, Gard T, Stephan KE

Biological Psychiatry, 2017