Upcoming Events
Whitney Scott
Psychology Intern at the AEPMU
"The adverse impact of perceived injustice on pain outcomes"
May 16, 2012 4:00 p.m.
D14-102 of the Montreal General Hospital.
Dr. Mogil's Lab
'The role of drosophila piezo in mechanical nociception'.
May 17, 2012 9:30 a.m.
McIntyre Medical Building Room 1346
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About Us
Pain research at McGill University is conducted at the AECRP (Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain). The Centre comprises researchers from the Faculties of Medicine, Dentistry and Science. Its main goal is to bring together the McGill community of basic and clinical pain researchers to promote research that will result in cures for chronic pain. Through activities and international collaborations, the Centre focuses on new discoveries and their clinical applications that will improve the prevention and treatment of chronic pain.
Congratulations
Louise and Alan Edwards Grants in Pain Research 2012
The Louise and Alan Edwards Foundation of Montreal is pleased to announce the five recipients of the Grants in Pain Research 2012: Dr. Juan Francisco Asenjo; Dr. Gary J. Bennett; Dr. Jean Ouellet; Dr. Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Silva and Dr. Philippe Seguela. [File]
Edwards PhD. Studentships in Pain Research 2012
The Louise and Alan Edwards Foundation is pleased to announce the four recipients of the Edwards PhD. Studentships in Pain Research 2012 : Ms. Anne-Julie Chabot-Dore; Mr. Pedro Cruz Duarte; Ms. Geraldine Longo and Mr. Scott Thompson. [File]
“Top 10 discoveries of the year” in Quebec Science
Laura Stone
Laura Stone and team (including QPRN researchers Mark Ware, Jean Ouellet, Cathy Bushnell & Yoram Shir) who showed recovery of cortical thickness and function after treating chronic low back pain patients. [link]“Top 10 discoveries of the year” in Quebec Science
Yves De Koninck
Yves De Koninck and Team for the development of a novel microprobe for single cell optogenetics sensing and control in the brain. [link]Featured Papers
Laferrière A, Pitcher MH, Haldane A, Huang Y, Cornea V, Kumar N, Sacktor TC, Cervero F, Coderre TJ. PKMzeta is essential for spinal plasticity underlying the maintenance of persistent pain. Mol Pain. 2011 Dec 20;7:99.
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Farmer MA, Taylor AM, Bailey AL, Tuttle AH, Macintyre LC, Milagrosa ZE, Crissman HP, Bennett GJ, Ribeiro-da-Silva A, Binik YM, Mogil JS. Repeated vulvovaginal fungal infections cause persistent pain in a mouse model of vulvodynia. Sci Transl Med 2011;3(101):101ra191. [link]
Echeverry S, Shi XQ, Rivest S, Zhang J. Peripheral Nerve Injury Alters Blood-Spinal Cord Barrier Functional and Molecular Integrity through a Selective Inflammatory Pathway.J Neurosci. 2011 Jul 27;31(30):10819-28.
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News
Researchers from the AECRP reveal chronic pain may have to do with our genes.
[Link] Mini-Science: OUCH! The science of pain from onset to relief.
Register now for the Mini-Science 2012 series, presented by leading McGill scientists, and covering many major aspects of pain science, from molecular and neural pathways to the psychological modulation of pain. [Link] Dr. Terence Coderre and his team of the Alan Edwards Center for Research on Pain discover how to erase pain’s ‘neural trace’
"We discovered the molecule (protein kinase M-zeta) that is necessary for storing memory traces in pain pathways, and have used an inhibitor of this molecule to erase these memory traces and thereby reduce persistent pain" says Dr. Coderre [Link] Pain research at McGill
AECRP Video [Link] Dr. Ronald Melzack
AECRP Video [Link]
