Weekly Highlights from a Past President of the International Association for the Study of Pain

As a Past President of the?International Association for the Study of Pain?(IASP) I am pleased to provide weekly updates on the most recent activities within the field.

In the following, I draw your attention to the wealth of activities and resources that IASP offers the global pain community.

IASP News - This Week:

The IASP’s Early Career Research Grant Application Deadline is Approaching!

IASP’s Early Career Research Grants facilitate the development of young researchers just starting their careers as independent investigators. Multiple grants of up to $20,000 USD will be awarded for projects lasting up to one year. Learn more here and apply for a grant by 10 July 2023!

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 systematic review from the June 2023 issue:

Resting-state electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography as biomarkers of chronic pain: a systematic review

Zebhauser et al.

PAIN.?June. 164(6):1200-1221.

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? Perineuronal?Nets: An Overlooked Mechanism of Neuropathic Pain?

New data shows that microglia degrade?perineuronal?nets in the spinal dorsal horn after nerve injury, driving neuropathic pain. Future work aims to uncover their role in somatosensory transmission and pain states.?

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

Oxycodone withdrawal induces HDAC1/HDAC2-dependent transcriptional maladaptations in the reward pathway in a mouse model of peripheral nerve injury.

Pryce et al. Nat Neurosci.?8 June 2023.

The microglial innate immune receptors TREM-1 and TREM-2 in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) drive visceral hypersensitivity and depressive-like behaviors following DSS-induced colitis.

Wu et al. Brain Behav Immun.?5 June 2023.

Peripheral CCL2-CCR2 signalling contributes to chronic headache-related sensitization.

Ryu et al. Brain.?7 June 2023.

Global, regional, and national burden of low back pain, 1990-2020, its attributable risk factors, and projections to 2050: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.

GBD 2021 Low Back Pain Collaborators.Lancet Rheumatol.?June 2023.?

RELIEF

RELIEF?is the?IASP Pain Research Forum’s companion site for patients and the wider public. RELIEF aims to provide anyone touched by or interested in chronic pain with knowledge and information about the latest research?to help them raise awareness of chronic pain, rally support for pain research, and contribute to an international conversation about ways to advance pain treatment and care.

?DID YOU MISS? What Do These Medical Procedures Have in Common?

Many invasive and potentially painful medical procedures performed on women do not require the use of pain relief and/or anesthetics as a standard of care. Collective dialogue and mobilization, however, have begun to reverse this trend.