4^th International Conference on
Neurology and Health Care

MIHOKO TOMITA

Professor

Matsumoto Dental University

JAPAN

Biography

Mihoko Tomida graduated from School of Dentistry at Asahi University and Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, and acquired Ph.D. After having worked as an oral surgeon for four years, she became a teacher of physiology at Tokyo Womens Medical University. And she started to investigate the relationship between pain and emotion by using rat and human. She found that the pain was involved with nerve cells of an amygdala and the cingulate cortex from animal experiment. After three years, she moved to Matsumoto Dental University.Beta endorphine expression in the periaqueductal gray (PAG) increased by inflammation and dynorphin in the PAG increased by giving electric stimulation at amygdala. She is interested in the expression of opioids in the brain. Now, she looks into the relation between pain or stress and opioid. expression.

Research Area

Expression of opioids in the brain. Relation between pain or stress and opioid.