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Advanced Neuroscience – Motor and Pain
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3187-26-00-00	There are 40 available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 05/01/2026

Date and time	23.03.2026, at: 09:00 - 27.03.2026, at: 20:00
Regular seats	40
Course fee	9,960.00 kr.
Lecturers	Ole Kiehn
ECTS credits	5.00

Contact person	Nicolas Caesar Petersen E-mail address: nicolascp@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration SUND E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment guidelines This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD Students from NorDoc member faculties. All other participants must pay the course fee. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. This also applies to PhD students from NorDoc member faculties. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. Understand the nervous system circuits regulation motor function, the development of and the learning taking place in such circuits in health and disease 2. Understand the fundamental nervous system circuits governing nociceptive processing, potential mechanisms involved in pain maintenance, and pain mechanisms accessible in humans 3. Critically discuss and put into perspective contemporary scientific literature of motor and pain circuits as well as treatment strategies. 4. Identify and explain state of the art experimental approaches used to study motor and pain and identify gaps in the current knowledge Content This course aims to give neuroscience PhD students located in Denmark a streamlined and solid understanding in a range of central, state of the art neuroscience topics, bringing them to the forefront of current scientific knowledge. The course will cover the following areas: Motor Circuit Neuroscience • Fundamentals of motor circuit complexity across the nervous system • Development and organization of spinal motor circuits • Insights into basal ganglia function in motor control • Diversity of brainstem circuits involved in movement regulation • Mechanisms of learning and adaptation in motor circuits • Treatment of Parkinson’s disease using deep brain stimulation • Advanced methods for investigating brain circuit function • Sensory-motor interaction during walking Pain Neuroscience • Fundamentals of the peripheral and spinal nociceptive systems • Fundamentals of the supra-spinal nociceptive system • Mechanisms relevant for pain chronification • Human experimental pain neuroscience • Assessment of pain mechanisms in humans • Neuromodulatory mechanisms for pain Participants This course is intended for students with a strong foundation in neuroscience. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: Neuroscience Language English Form Each course day will consist of a mixture of lecture- and workshop-based learning, consolidated through student presentations. Course director Ole Kiehn, Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Ole.Kiehn@sund.ku.dk Teachers - Ole Kiehn, Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen - Giacomo Sitzi, Postdoc, Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen - Stephan Dietrich, Postdoc, Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen - Divya Rao, Postdoc, Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen - Roberto Leiras, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen - Fan Wang, Professor, MIT, USA - Andreas Horn, Professor, Harvard, USA - Rasmus Feld Frisk, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen - Andrew Stevenson, Associate Professor, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University - Thomas Graven-Nielsen, Professor, Center for Neuroplasticity and Pain (CNAP), Aalborg University - Kenneth Lindegaard Madsen, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen - Sara Elgaard Jager, Postdoc, Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen - Pall Karlsson, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University - Daniel Ciampi De Andrade, Associate Professor, Center for Neuroplasticity and Pain (CNAP), Aalborg University - Sara Hestehave, Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen Dates 23 - 27 March 2026 Course location Hotel Svendborg Centrumpladsen 1 5700 Svendborg Registration Please register before 5 January 2026 Expected frequency This is an annual course with rotating main topics. Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.b>Learning objectives Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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