Sumaiya Shaikh

Sumaiya Shaikh in 2022 Sumaiya Shaikh is a neuroscientist.

Shaikh co-founded the Indian fact-checking website Alt News in her role as the science editor. Her work has focused on debunking misinformation related to medicine. She wrote a book titled "India Misinformed: The True Story" with Pratik Sinha of Alt News. It was published by Harper Collins in 2019.

Shaikh has frequently highlighted misinformation related to Ayurveda, including when treatments have been promoted without scientific data.

Shaikh is the founding director of a Sweden-based organisation called ViolEND. The organization aims to rehabilitate extremists who per Shaikh have been shown by research to have an urge to be violent and prefer the dopamine-driven high from violence over other types of highs such as from alcohol or drugs. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Psychophysical Investigations into the Role of Low-Threshold C Fibres in Non-Painful Affective Processing and Pain Modulation.

    Psychophysical Investigations into the Role of Low-Threshold C Fibres in Non-Painful Affective Processing and Pain Modulation. by Sumaiya Shaikh, Saad S Nagi, Francis McGlone, David A Mahns

    Published 2015-01-01
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    Social Touch Reduces Pain Perception—An fMRI Study of Cortical Mechanisms

    Social Touch Reduces Pain Perception—An fMRI Study of Cortical Mechanisms by Mattias Savallampi, Anne M. S. Maallo, Sumaiya Shaikh, Francis McGlone, Frédérique J. Bariguian-Revel, Håkan Olausson, Rebecca Boehme

    Published 2023-02-01
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