Egor Ananyev is a research fellow in the department of psychology at Nanyang Technological University. He obtained his PhD from the National University of Singapore.

Ryoichi Tashima is a PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Kyushu University and studies molecular and cellular mechanisms in the peripheral and central nervous system underlying chronic pain.

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