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Kvamme, T. L., Rutiku, R., Wierzchoń, M., Griskova-Bulanova, I., Fardo, F., Barzykowski, K., Sandberg, K. & Silvanto, J. (2026). An inwardly focused cognitive style links mental imagery and mental health. Heliyon, 12(2), Article e44433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e44433

Böhme, R. A., Banellis, L., Vejlø, M., Allen, M. G. & Fardo, F. (2026). No evidence for a link between mental health symptoms and pain thresholds. Anxiety, Stress and Coping, 39(1), 101-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2534858

Schaldemose, E. L., Brask-Thomsen, P. K., Itani, M., Fardo, F., Karlsson, P., Kristensen, A. G., Tankisi, H., Jensen, T. S., Baron, R., Finnerup, N. B. & Gylfadottir, S. S. (2025). A longitudinal study of paradoxical heat sensation in 420 individuals. Pain. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003652

Deolindo, C. S., Ehmsen, J. F., Courtin, A. S., Mitchell, A. G., Kraenge, C. E., Nikolova, N., Allen, M. G. & Fardo, F. (2025). Assessing individual sensitivity to the Thermal Grill Illusion: A two-dimensional adaptive psychophysical approach. Journal of Pain, 27, Article 104732. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2024.104732

Lund, A. E., Corrêa, C. M. C., Fardo, F., Fleming, S. M. & Allen, M. G. (2025). Domain Generality in Metacognitive Ability: A Confirmatory Study Across Visual Perception, Episodic Memory, and Semantic Memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001462

Banellis, L., Nikolova, N., Ehmsen, J. F., Courtin, A., Vejlø, M., Tyrer, A., Böhme, R. A., Fardo, F. & Allen, M. (2025). Interoceptive ability is uncorrelated across respiratory and cardiac axes: a large scale psychophysical study. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/s56v4_v1

Banellis, L., Nikolova, N., Ehmsen, J. F., Courtin, A., Vejlø, M., Tyrer, A., Böhme, R. A., Bavato, F., Hoogervorst, K., Fardo, F. & Allen, M. (2025). Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/p5gvc_v2

Nikolova, N., Fischer Ehmsen, J., Banellis, L., Brændholt, M., Steenkjær, C., Vejlø, M., Fardo, F. & Allen, M. G. (2025). Microstructural Brain Correlates of Inter-individual Differences in Respiratory Interoception. The Journal of neuroscience, 45(36), Article e0787242025. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0787-24.2025

Tyrer, A., Ehmsen, J. F., Hoogervorst, K., Nikolova, N., Pando-Naude, V., Steenkjær, C. H., Courtin, A., Fardo, F., Hauser, T. U., Bavato, F. & Allen, M. (2025). Peripheral Beta-Blockade Differentially Enhances Cardiac and Respiratory Interoception. Abstract from 8th Annual Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Niedernhuber, M., Fardo, F., Allen, M. & Bekinschtein, T. (2025). Supramodal and modality-specific neural information supports multi-feature prediction errors across cortical levels. Imaging Neuroscience, 3, Article IMAG.a.149. https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.149

Nochi, Z., Pia, H., Bloms-Funke, P., Boesl, I., Caspani, O., Chapman, S. C., Di Pietro, G., Fardo, F., Genser, B., Goetz, M., Jiang, B., Kostenko, A. V., Lebrun, L., Leone, C. M., Li, T., Möller-Grell, N., Mouraux, A., Pelz, B., Pogatzki-Zahn, E. ... Finnerup, N. B. (2025). The effects of lacosamide, pregabalin, and tapentadol on peripheral nerve excitability: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover, multi-center trial in healthy subjects. Anesthesiology, 142(5), 1279-1295. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0000000000005694

Brændholt, M., Nikolova, N., Vejlø, M., Banellis, L., Fardo, F., Kluger, D. S. & Allen, M. (2025). The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making. PLoS Computational Biology, 21(5 ), Article e1013086. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013086

Ehmsen, J. F., Nikolova, N., Christensen, D. E., Banellis, L., Böhme, R. A., Brændholt, M., Courtin, A. S., Krænge, C. E., Mitchell, A. G., Deolindo, C. S., Steenkjær, C. H., Vejlø, M., Mathys, C., Allen, M. G. & Fardo, F. (2025). Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain. Science Advances, 11(11), Article eadq0261. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adq0261

Hébert, H. L., Veluchamy, A., Baskozos, G., Fardo, F., Van Ryckeghem, D., Pearson, E. R., Colvin, L. A., Crombez, G., Bennett, D. L. H., Meng, W., Palmer, C. N. A. & Smith, B. H. (2024). Correction to: Development and external validation of multivariable risk models to predict incident and resolved neuropathic pain: a DOLORisk Dundee study (Journal of Neurology, (2023), 270, 2, (1076-1094), 10.1007/s00415-022-11478-0). Journal of Neurology, 271(12), 7652-7653. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-024-12721-6

Mitchell, A. G., Ehmsen, J. F., Christensen, D. E., Stuckert, A. V., Haggard, P. & Fardo, F. (2024). Disentangling the spinal mechanisms of illusory heat and burning sensations in the thermal grill illusion. Pain, 165(10), 2370-2378. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003352

Vollert, J., Fardo, F., Attal, N., Baron, R., Bouhassira, D., Enax-Krumova, E. K., Freynhagen, R., Hansson, P., Jensen, T. S., Kersebaum, D., Maier, C., Pogatzki-Zahn, E., Rice, A. S. C., Sachau, J., Schaldemose, E. L., Segerdahl, M., Sendel, M., Tölle, T. R., Finnerup, N. B. & Treede, R. D. (2024). Paradoxical heat sensation as a manifestation of thermal hypesthesia: a study of 1090 patients with lesions of the somatosensory system. Pain, 165(1), 216-224. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003014

Clarke, S., Rogers, R., Wanigasekera, V., Fardo, F., Pia, H., Nochi, Z., Macian, N., Leray, V., Finnerup, N. B., Pickering, G., Mouraux, A., Truini, A., Treede, R. D., Garcia-Larrea, L. & Tracey, I. (2024). Systematic review and co-ordinate based meta-analysis to summarize the utilization of functional brain imaging in conjunction with human models of peripheral and central sensitization. European Journal of Pain (United Kingdom), 28(7), 1069-1094. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.2251

Mitchell, A. G., Fischer Ehmsen, J., Basińska, M., Courtin, A. S., Böhme, R. A., Sardeto Deolindo, C., Allen, M. G., Sandberg, K. & Fardo, F. (2024). Thermal contrast enhancement predicts paradoxical heat sensation. Communications Psychology, 2(1), 1-8. Article 37. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00083-8

Hébert, H. L., Veluchamy, A., Baskozos, G., Fardo, F., Van Ryckeghem, D., Pearson, E. R., Colvin, L. A., Crombez, G., Bennett, D. L. H., Meng, W., Palmer, C. N. A. & Smith, B. H. (2023). Development and external validation of multivariable risk models to predict incident and resolved neuropathic pain: a DOLORisk Dundee study. Journal of Neurology, 270(2), 1076-1094. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-022-11478-0

Schaldemose, E. L., Raaschou-Nielsen, L., Böhme, R. A., Finnerup, N. B. & Fardo, F. (2023). It is one or the other: No overlap between healthy individuals perceiving thermal grill illusion or paradoxical heat sensation. Neuroscience Letters, 802, Article 137169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2023.137169

Schaldemose, E. L., Andersen, N. T., Finnerup, N. B. & Fardo, F. (2023). When cooling of the skin is perceived as warmth: Enhanced paradoxical heat sensation by pre-cooling of the skin in healthy individuals. Temperature, 10(2), 248-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/23328940.2022.2088028

Nochi, Z., Pia, H., Bloms-Funke, P., Boesl, I., Caspani, O., Chapman, S. C., Fardo, F., Genser, B., Goetz, M., Kostenko, A. V., Leone, C., Li, T., Mouraux, A., Pelz, B., Pogatzki-Zahn, E., Schilder, A., Schnetter, E., Schubart, K., Stouffs, A. ... Treede, R. D. (2022). IMI2-PainCare-BioPain-RCT1: study protocol for a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover, multi-center trial in healthy subjects to investigate the effects of lacosamide, pregabalin, and tapentadol on biomarkers of pain processing observed by peripheral nerve excitability testing (NET). Trials, 23, Article 163. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06087-1

Legrand, N., Nikolova, N., Correa, C., Brændholt, M., Stuckert, A., Kildahl, N., Vejlø, M., Fardo, F. & Allen, M. (2022). The heart rate discrimination task: A psychophysical method to estimate the accuracy and precision of interoceptive beliefs. Biological Psychology, 168, Article 108239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108239

Nikolova, N., Harrison, O., Toohey, S., Brændholt, M., Legrand, N., Correa, C., Vejlø, M., Jensen, M. S., Fardo, F. & Allen, M. (2022). The respiratory resistance sensitivity task: An automated method for quantifying respiratory interoception and metacognition. Biological Psychology, 170, Article 108325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108325

He´bert, H. L., Veluchamy, A., Baskozos, G., Fardo, F., Van Ryckeghem, D. M. L., Pascal, M. M. V., Jones, C., Milburn, K., Pearson, E. R., Crombez, G., Bennett, D. L. H., Meng, W., Palmer, C. N. A. & Smith, B. H. (2021). Cohort profile: DOLORisk Dundee: A longitudinal study of chronic neuropathic pain. BMJ Open, 11(5), Article e042887. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042887

Legrand, N., Engen, S. S., Correa, C. M. C., Mathiasen, N. K., Nikolova, N., Fardo, F. & Allen, M. (2021). Emotional metacognition: stimulus valence modulates cardiac arousal and metamemory. Cognition and Emotion, 35(4), 705-721. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2020.1859993

Fardo, F., Beck, B., Allen, M. & Finnerup, N. B. (2020). Beyond labeled lines: A population coding account of the thermal grill illusion. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 108, 472-479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.11.017

Allen, M., Legrand, N., Costa Correa, C. M. & Fardo, F. (2020). Thinking through prior bodies: autonomic uncertainty and interoceptive self-inference. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 43, e91. Article e91. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19002899

Fardo, F., Beck, B., Cheng, T. & Haggard, P. (2018). A mechanism for spatial perception on human skin. Cognition, 178, 236-243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.05.024

Fardo, F., Finnerup, N. B. & Haggard, P. (2018). Organization of the thermal grill illusion by spinal segments. Annals of Neurology, 84(3), 463-472. https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.25307

Vukovic, N., Fardo, F. & Shtyrov, Y. U. R. Y. (2018). When words burn - Language processing differentially modulates pain perception in typical and chronic pain populations. Language and Cognition, 10(4), 626-640. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2018.22

Fardo, F., Vinding, M. C., Allen, M. G., Jensen, T. S. & Finnerup, N. B. (2017). Delta and gamma oscillations in operculo-insular cortex underlie innocuous cold thermosensation. Journal of Neurophysiology, 117(5), 1959-1968. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00843.2016

Fardo, F., Auksztulewicz, R., Allen, M., Dietz, M., Roepstorff, A. & Friston, K. (2017). Expectation violation and attention to pain jointly modulate neural gain in somatosensory cortex. NeuroImage, 153, 109-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.03.041

Allen, M., Frank, D., Glen, J. C., Fardo, F., Callaghan, M. F. & Rees, G. (2017). Insula and somatosensory cortical myelination and iron markers underlie individual differences in empathy. Scientific Reports, 7, Article 43316. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep43316

Allen, M., Glen, J. C., Mullensiefen, D., Schwarzkopf, D. S., Fardo, F., Frank, D., Callaghan, M. F. & Rees, G. (2017). Metacognitive ability correlates with hippocampal and prefrontal microstructure. NeuroImage, 149, 415-423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.02.008

Allen, M., Frank, D., Schwarzkopf, D. S., Fardo, F., Winston, J. S., Hauser, T. U. & Rees, G. (2016). Unexpected arousal modulates the influence of sensory noise on confidence. eLife, 5(OCTOBER2016), Article e18103. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.18103

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