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:

IASP Remembers Professor Manfred Zimmermann

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Manfred Zimmermann, one of IASP’s founding members. Professor Zimmermann, co-founder of the European Federation of IASP Chapters (EFIC) and a past president of the Germany Pain Society, passed in May 2024.? Learn more here.

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 July 2024 issue:

High-speed imaging of evoked rodent mechanical behaviors yields variable results that are not predictive of inflammatory injury.

Rodríguez García et al.

PAIN. July. 165(7):1569-1582.

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 2024 PRF-NAPS Correspondents Blog: Preview

Five early-career pain researchers are participating in the PRF-NAPS Correspondents program during the 2024 North American Pain School, taking place 23-28 June in Montebello, Québec City, Canada. Take a look at their first blog posts here!

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

Sensory ASIC3 channel exacerbates psoriatic inflammation via a neurogenic pathway in female mice.

Huang et al.

Nat. Comm. 20 June 2024.

Peripheral gating of mechanosensation by glial diazepam binding inhibitor.

Li et al.

J. Clin. Invest. 18 June 2024.