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 Co-Hosted an Event at the 77th World Health Assembly to Promote Pain Care

On Tuesday, May 28, IASP co-hosted a side-meeting with the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists (WFSA) in Geneva in conjunction with the 77th World Health Assembly, across the street from the Palais des Nations where the WHA is held. Learn more and view a recording of the event 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:

The effect of a music-based caregiving intervention on pain intensity in nursing home patients with dementia: a cluster-randomized controlled study.

Myrenget et al.

PAIN. July. 165(7):1550-1558.

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

Five early-career pain researchers participated in the PRF-NAPS Correspondents program during the 2024 North American Pain School, which took place 23-28 June in Montebello, Québec City, Canada. Take a look at their blog posts from their first and third days at the conference here!

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

Interplay between subthalamic nucleus and spinal cord controls parkinsonian nociceptive disorders.

Charles et al.

Brain. 25 June 2024.

Social transmission of inflammation in mice.

Castany et al.

Brain Behav Immun. 24 June 2024.

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor contributes to activity-induced muscle pain in male but not female mice.

Hayashi et al.

Brain Behav Immun. 24 June 2024.

Parvalbumin gates chronic pain through the modulation of firing patterns in inhibitory neurons.

Qui et al.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 02 July 2024.