Mauricio C. Henrich was born in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Back in Argentina, during his studies at Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos, he worked with signal processing of intracerebral recordings of Parkinson’s Disease patients, developing a program to support the implantation of the stimulation electrodes for Deep Brain Stimulation therapy.

He is currently studying mechanisms involved in the integration of nociceptive stimuli at the spinal level in healthy humans. In his project, Mauricio uses sophisticated electrophysiological techniques to study the Nociceptive Withdrawal Reflex elicited by the electrical stimulation of the sole of the foot. Together with the assessment of other psychophysical measures, he aims at further understanding the functional implications of neuronal plasticity in spinal and cortical sensory-motor processing.

In his last study, conditions to facilitate descending modulation of spinal processing are being used, aiming at modulating the effect of the integrative mechanisms characterized in his previous studies. Those mechanisms are thought to play a role in the transition from acute to chronic pain. Therefore, the clarification of their role in the spinal nociceptive processing will shed light upon the overall understanding of the pain experience.

Mauricio successfully defended his PhD on 25 April 2022.