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Barry Komisaruk’s commitment to science education for minority youth, combined with his “distinguished research and publication record,” have won the psychology professor numerous recognitions. Most notably he was named a Rutgers Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor in July 2003, and last year, Minority Access, Inc. recognized Komisaruk’s outreach activities, by naming him a Minority Access Role Model.
The Rutgers-Newark scientist’s latest research is in the use of neural biofeedback to alleviate pain from spinal cord injuries. Komisaruk’s goal is to determine whether people with severe spinal cord injuries can use this type of biofeedback, seeing images of their own ongoing brain activity, to voluntarily lessen the pain they are experiencing.
Komisaruk’s earlier, internationally publicized research provided experimental evidence that women with spinal cord injuries could still experience sexual feelings via an existing nerve pathway that bypasses the spinal cord and enters the brain directly. This finding was a by-product of his research into the sensory pathways of pain and the neurochemicals that block pain.
Since fall 2001, Komisaruk has been splitting his time between R-N and his work in Maryland as an MBRS Program Director in the Minority Opportunities in Research Division of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which is part of the National Institutes of Health.
Komisaruk joined the faculty at Rutgers-Newark in 1966. He holds a bachelor of science degree in biology from the City University of New York, and received his doctorate in psychobiology from Rutgers-New Brunswick.
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