Over 30 posters were presented at the 2015 Pain Research Day. The keynote speaker was by Dr. Sean Mackey, Redlich Professor of Anesthesia & Pain Management and Chief, Division of Pain Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Time: 11:30am – 1:00pm Location: Dental Sciences Building, Room D7-11 Greetings! Sickness behavior is often characterized by immune-to-brain communication that can lead to a constellation of reversible behavioral and affective changes that include lethargy, social withdrawal and enhanced sensitivity to pain. The fact that stress factors may sensitize immune to…
Location: Dental Sciences Building, Room D7-11 Greetings, Chronic alcohol consumption produces painful peripheral neuropathy for which there is no reliable successful therapy, mainly due to lack of understanding of its pathobiology. Alcoholic neuropathy is believed to involve damage to nerves that results from long term excessive drinking of alcohol and…
Location: Dental Sciences Building, Room D7-11 Greetings, Phantom pain after arm amputation is widely believed to arise from maladaptive cortical reorganization, triggered by loss of sensory input (Flor et al.). Recent evidence, however, suggests that chronic phantom pain experience drives plasticity by maintaining local cortical representations and disrupting inter-regional connectivity…
Location: Dental Sciences Building, Room D7-11 Greetings, I want to let everyone know that after a Holiday break we are back on schedule with our next meeting of the Pain Journal Club scheduled from 11:30-1:00pm. Based on recent societal data for six major chronic conditions including heart disease, diabetes,…
Location: Dental Sciences Building, Room D7-11 Greetings, The next meeting of the Pain Journal Club will be Tuesday November 25th. The focus of the discussion will be on the roles of non-specific treatment effects, in particular patient expectations for pain relief and the therapeutic alliance, both of which have been…
Dear Colleagues: At this time I would like to announce the final meeting of Pain Connections for 2014. After a very successful meeting back in September I look forward to seeing everyone back again for what promises to be another interesting presentation and opportunity to catch up with friends and colleagues!!…
Time: 11:30 a.m. -1:00 p.m. Location: Dental Sciences Building, Room D7-11 Greetings, The aversiveness of pain as well as the reward of pain relief is processed by mesocorticolimbic circuits in the brain. These reward/motivational circuits have attracted a lot of attention both in clinical and preclinical studies (see attached). It…
Time: 11:30 a.m. -1:00 p.m. Location: Dental Sciences Building, Room D7-11 Greetings, The next meeting of the Pain Journal Club will be Tuesday October 14th. For the past decade a major concern in the pain field has been the shortage of drugs available to treat chronic pain. One can point…
Time: 11:30 a.m. -1:00 p.m. Location: Dental Sciences Building, Room D7-11 Greetings, Intervention for the treatment of chronic pain have expanded in recent years to include a number of different complementary and alternative strategies. One such strategy (acupuncture) has been around since 2000 BC and is practiced worldwide for conditions…
