Upcoming Events
Dr. Roderick Finlayson
MUHC Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit
Update on the Reseau Universitaire Intégré de Santé mission in chronic pain.
February 1, 2012 4:00 p.m.
D14-102 of the Montreal General Hospital
Dr. Marshall Devor
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
“On Feeling No Pain: Neural Basis for Loss of Consciousness in Anesthesia-like States.”
February 8, 2012 4:00 p.m.
D14-102 of the Montreal General Hospital
Dr. Hee-Jeong Im Sampen
Rush University, Departments of Biochemistry, Orthopedic Surgery and Internal Medicine
Disc Degeneration, Pain an Molecular Mechanisms.
February 14, 2012 11:30 a.m.
Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building M48
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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
2012 MCGILL PAIN DAY BEST POSTER PRESENTATIONS
HUMAN CLINICAL:
- Vongmaly Rattanavong for her poster entitled: 'Manipulating the private experience of pain unpleasantness: does it affect descending inhibition?'
BASIC SCIENCE:- Steven Cordeiro Matos for his poster entitled : 'HCN cation channels contribute to neuropathic pain processing in medial prefrontal cortex'
- Loren Martin for his poster: 'Modulation of nociceptive sensitivity in inflammatory and neuropathic pain by the epidermal growth factor receptor'
Researchers of the Alan Edwards Center for Research on Pain showcased in the “Top 10 discoveries of the year” in Quebec Science:
Two of the top 10 discoveries this year involve AECRP researchers! [link]
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]
Also 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
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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Seminowicz DA, Wideman TH, Naso L, Hatami-Khoroushahi Z, Fallatah S, Ware MA, Jarzem P, Bushnell MC, Shir Y, Ouellet JA, Stone LS. Effective treatment of chronic low back pain in humans reverses abnormal brain anatomy and function. J Neurosci. 2011 May 18;31(20):7540-50. [link]
News
- The Louise and Alan Edwards Foundation invites members of the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain (AECRP) to submit applications for funding of research on pain. For more information please see the link.
- The LAEF is accepting applications for research fellowships. Please see the link or consult the funding section for more information.
- The Forum will meet three times during the 2011-2012 academic year and will include the patients themselves sharing their pain experience with the audience, a formal presentation by the clinical team and a discussion led by basic scientists.
- In a study published recently in the Journal of Neuroscience researchers from the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain found that the changes in the brain that come with chronic pain can be reversed when the pain is treated effectively.
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