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Register now for Virtual Reality in Chronic Pain Management: New Frontiers in Treatment!

Join IASP’s Pain, Mind, and Movement Special Interest Group for an insightful webinar exploring the cutting-edge applications of virtual reality (VR) in chronic pain management. Our distinguished speakers - Zina Trost (Texas A&M University, USA) and Jonas Tesarz (University of Heidelberg, Germany) - will present the latest research and clinical applications of VR technology in pain treatment.

IASP Journals:

PAIN is an official journal of IASP. Published monthly,?PAIN?presents original research on the nature, mechanisms, and treatment of pain. Take a look at this original research paper from the November 2024 issue:

?Sex-dependent effects of the targeted nerve growth factor mutation (R100E) on pain behavior, joint inflammation, and bone erosion in mice Morado-Urbina et al. PAIN. December. 165(12): 2814-2828.

?PAIN Reports is an official IASP publication. An online, open access, multidisciplinary journal,?PAIN Reports?promotes a global, rapid, and readily accessible forum that advances clinical, applied, and basic research on pain. ?

?Take a look at the latest articles from PAIN Reports by visiting here.

IASP Pain Research Forum:

The IASP Pain Research Forum (PRF) is an interactive community of pain researchers working to understand the basic neurobiology of pain and translate new knowledge into novel treatments for chronic pain.?

PRF News: PRF’s professional science journalists cover the latest topics in pain research each and every week for thousands of readers throughout the world.

?DID YOU MISS? The Keys to an Impactful Career in Pain Research: A Conversation with Elliot J. Krane

In this episode of the IASP-PRF Podcast, PRF correspondent Adewale Fadaka spoke with?Elliot J. Krane?– a prolific pain researcher and co-founder of one of the first pain centers for children in North America.??

PRF Papers of the Week: PRF’s weekly review of the scientific literature on pain. This week’s highlighted papers:

Decoding transcriptional identity in developing human sensory neurons and organoid modeling. Lu T et al. Cell. 4 November 2024.

?FLT3 signaling inhibition abrogates opioid tolerance and hyperalgesia while preserving analgesia. Jouvenel A et al. Nat Commun. 7 November 2024.

Immune drivers of pain resolution and protection. Hakim S, Jain A & Woolf CJ Nat Immunol. 11 November 2024.

Long-term optical imaging of the spinal cord in awake behaving mice. Ahanonu et al. Nat Methods. 12 November 2024.