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.
Pain Research at McGill: Congratulations
The Louise and Alan Edwards Foundation is pleased to announce the results for the following awards:
LOUISE AND ALAN EDWARDS GRANTS IN PAIN RESEARCH
Dr. Terence J. Coderre; Dr. Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Silva; Dr. Reza Sharif Naeini and Dr. Laura Stone.
[File]RONALD MELZACK FELLOWSHIP IN PAIN RESEARCH
Stephanie Gregoire, Ph.D.
[File]EDWARDS PHD. STUDENTSHIPS IN PAIN RESEARCH
Mr.Behrang Sharif and Ms Wiebke Gandhi
[File]2013 PAIN DAY POSTER COMPETITION WINNERS:
Basic Science: Ihab Daou
Light-Induced Nociception: Remote Optogenetic Control Of Peripheral Pain Pathways In Freely Moving Mice [File]Basic Science: Jeongyoon Moon
Inhibiting Inflammation With Ccr2/5 Antagonist Reverses Mechanical And Cold Allodynia In Painful Diabetic Neuropathy Rats [File]Human/Clinical: Rafik Marouf
Decreased Pain Inhibition Processes Are Related To Decreased Cognitive Inhibition In Older Adults [File]Human/Clinical: Lydia Girard-Tremblay
Sex Differences in Cortical Responses To Pain Unpleasantness [File]Featured Papers
A. W. Saeed and A. Ribeiro-da-Silva. De novo expression of neurokinin-1 receptors by spinoparabrachial lamina I pyramidal neurons following a peripheral nerve lesion. J Comp Neurol, DOI: 10.1002/cne.23267 (2012). [link]
Sorge, R.E., Trang, T., Dorfman, R., Smith, S.B., Beggs, S., Ritchie, J., Austin, J.-S., Zaykin, D.V., Vander Meulen, H., Costigan, M., Herbert, T.A., Yarkoni-Abitbul, M., Tichauer, D., Livneh, J., Gershon, E., Zheng, M., Tan, K., John, S.L., Slade, G.D., Jordan, J., Woolf, C.J., Peltz, G., Maixner, W., Diatchenko, L., Seltzer, Z., Salter, M.W. and Mogil, J.S. Genetically determined P2X7 receptor pore formation regulates variability in chronic pain sensitivity. Nat. Med., 18:595-599 (2012). [link]
News
Dr. Laura Stone: Chronic pain alters DNA marking in the brain
The team led by Prof. Laura Stone and Prof. Moshe Szyf, have discovered a mechanism that embeds the memory of an injury in the way the DNA is marked in the brain by a chemical coating called methyl groups or DNA methylation. [Link] "Understanding Pain": a new book by Fernando Cervero
"Understanding Pain," a book by Fernando Cervero for the general public -as well as for the pain specialist- has just been published by MIT Press. [Link] The Canadian Foundation for Innovation also has an entry on Dr. Cervero's new book: [Link]
