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Dr. Kutch’s laboratory is addressing the problem of chronic pelvic pain from a unique systems neuroscience perspective. He has a background in motor systems neuroscience, and have developed and published several non-invasive approaches to understanding muscle control in humans. They recently developed and published a new multimodal approach – including electromyography (EMG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) – for revealing neural mechanisms of involuntary control of pelvic floor muscles. As the co-director of the neuroimaging working group in the NIDDK-funded multi-site Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain (MAPP) Research Network, he has played a leading role in the analysis of MAPP Phase I (2008-2013) fMRI data, and he currently plays a leading role in the design, implementation, and monitoring of the MAPP Phase II study (2014-2019). He leads MAPP research efforts to reveal brain imaging differences between pelvic pain patients and healthy controls, to predict longitudinal progression of pelvic pain symptoms from neuroimaging, and to stratify pelvic pain patients according to widespreadness of pain based on neuroimaging. In the proposed work, he will assist with the acquisition and analysis of novel 7T data to study sex related differences in patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).

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