About
Dr. Atmani received his Masters of Science in Neuroscience and Behavior Science from the University of Rouen in 2014. He completed two internships in research laboratories during his studies. During his first internship at INSERM U1073 Laboratory in France, he worked on nutrition, inflammation and dysfunction of gut-brain axis. During his second, at the University of Portsmouth Molecular Medicine Laboratory in England, he focused on brain development in an animal model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. For his PhD, Dr. Atmani worked on pelvic chronic pain at the University of Rouen. His studies there were focused on viscero-sensitivity, nociceptive receptors, and glial cells. At the same time, he did clinical research, including a study assessing the effects of chronic pelvic nerve stimulation in patients with fecal incontinence. Dr. Atmani worked for more than two years as a scientific project officer in the French National Research Agency in Paris. In 2021, he joined the Mulugeta Lab at UCLA and focused on neuromodulation of the automimic and peripheric nervous systems under opioid-induced constipation conditions, and on pelvic cross-organ sensitization. In 2024, Dr. Atmani joined the Vaseghi Lab, and his work is focused on the autonomic nervous system and nociception post myocardial infarction in order to characterize and treat cardiac arrhythmias.