Weekly Highlights from a Past President of the International Association for the Study of Pain
Lars Arendt-Nielsen
Professor, dr med, ph d, Past President at 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:
IASP Awards Lakeisha Lewter with the Philip A. Spiegel Trainee Award
The 2024 awardee of the ?Philip A. Spiegel Trainee Award is Dr. Keisha Lewter, PhD, for her poster abstract:?Assessing the Role of Amygdala Calcitonin Gene-related Peptide Receptors on Chronic Bladder Pain. Her work focuses on visceral pain in women, specifically bladder pain.
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 August 2024 issue:
Digging deeper into pain: an ethological behavior assay correlating well-being in mice with human pain experience. Pattison et al. PAIN. July. 165(8): 1761-1773.
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.
Professor Karel Allegaert is a distinguished figure in the field of pediatric pharmacology and neonatology, making significant contributions to advancing our understanding of drug therapy in infants and newborns.??
PRF Papers of the Week: PRF’s weekly review of the scientific literature on pain. This week’s highlighted papers:?????????????????????????????????
STING recognition of viral dsDNA by nociceptors mediates pain in mice. Lee et al. Brain Behav Immun. 16 July 2024.
Placebo treatment affects brain systems related to affective and cognitive processes, but not nociceptive pain. Botvinik-Nezer et al. Nat Commun. 17 July 2024.