Pain across the lifespan: global and regional reference curves from 6.1 million individuals in 118 countries. Great work @mfilling.bsky.social #PainResearch www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

discussion will include "potential interventions (e.g., moving to one competition per year, restricting applications, capping resubmissions)." don't miss this

I encourage everyone to show up and make your voice heard at upcoming town halls and via any other channels: cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/45096.html • Bilingual session: Thursday, May 28 at 1:00 p.m. ET • English session: Wednesday, June 24 at 1:30 p.m. ET • French session: Thursday, June 25 at 1:30 p.m. ET

Our next #WINMemberMonday feature is Dryden Arseneau, MSc student in the Dept. of Neuroscience, @schulichmeddent.bsky.social! Learn more about their work here. If you would like to be featured, please fill out this short form here! 🔗 uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Throughout his six-decades-long career, Howard Fields became a leading figure in both pain and addiction. By @natmesanash.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/pain/in-memo...

This is one of the most exciting pieces of science I have had the privilege to be involved in, led by @rui-xu.bsky.social‬, Bob Desimone, and Mark Richardson: the discovery of actual long-range monosynaptic connections in the human brain! For example the FFA connects to the rTPJ, how cool is that?

"BOLD fMRI deactivations can occur in conjunction with stable or even increased glucose consumption"

(1/5) Our paper is out now in Neuron! bsky.app/profile/cp-n... The LPFC has fine-scale organization that gets missed in group-averaged data because of inter-individual variability. It is visible in individuals in both resting-state and task data.

I'm proud to say we are releasing LAION-fMRI, a densely sampled 7T fMRI dataset of natural images, with very broad stimulus sampling for testing countless hypotheses and for deeply exploring brain representations. The dataset is now available at laion-fmri.hebartlab.com What does LAION-fMRI offer? 🧵

congrats to everyone who published in Nature, Nat Comms, Nat Neuro, and Neuron last year

Can EEG patterns predict chronic pain? @schulichmeddent.bsky.social @westernknowpain.bsky.social www.schulich.uwo.ca/about/news-e...

nice thread here

Check out our latest preprint, this one led by PhD student extraordinaire, Khadijah Mazhar: "Satellite microglia-like cells in human dorsal root ganglia and changes with diabetic neuropathy" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

NaV1.7 mRNA and Protein Expression in Resident Neurons of the Human Spinal Dorsal Horn: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @stephanie-shiers.bsky.social great work on Nav1.7 in human spinal cord is finally published in JCN!

Join our team! I'm looking for postdocs and graduate students interested in dissecting brain circuits promoting chronic pain and comorbid anxiodepressive states. Check out the links below! We'll be at CAN in Montreal! posters: P2B316 & P3B575 can-acn.org/postdoc-posi... can-acn.org/phd-student-...

With the rumblings around CIHR wanting to move to one cycle per year not going away, in consultation with a diverse stakeholder group, we have put together a letter for CIHR leadership. Please consider signing this letter and share/RT: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @cannabrain.bsky.social

CIHR has launched a trial ballon that suggests shifting to one competition a year. This is the worst idea I have heard in a long time. The only benefit is making top-line success rates look better than they are. Keep it as is, do in-person reviews, and keep the pain in the open.

Update your calendars! We’ve shifted the timing for our upcoming session, Exploring Pain: Episode 7. Join Dr. Laura Wandner and Ted Price, PhD, for expert insights on our new date: Friday, May 22nd at 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT Register here: bit.ly/3QSHKvD

This week’s #PAIN Featured Image is a diagram of the experimental protocol and expected peaks in evoked potential to TMS to M1. Learn more in Chowdhury et al. bit.ly/4mic9yz

"The common conception that the brain is primarily for thinking, or other cognitive processes, is potentially misleading... [the brain's actual function is] allostasis: the predictive regulation of competing demands from internal bodily systems" www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... hmm.

What an incredible achievement for this rising star, coming out of the @daspainbrain.bsky.social lab :) Stay tuned for some exciting research coming out of this.

R00 paper drop, 2/2. Grateful to have this chapter wrapped! Gentle CT brushing reduced heat pain regardless of chronic pain status, between spinal segments. Trauma history and depression- but not pain intensity- emerged as the strongest predictors of touch-pain modulation! doi.org/10.1113/JP29...

I’m very sad to share that Howard Fields has died. He made seminal discoveries in pain modulation, placebo, and addiction. He was also a wonderful mentor and friend who taught me how to think about the brain and the joy of scientific discovery. www.iasp-pain.org/publications...

Great news for investments in research: $16M for a new 7T MRI 🧠🔬 boosts ultrahigh-res neuroimaging and strengthens @westernu.ca global leadership. #TRIDENT partners like @cfmm.bsky.social will be empowered to accelerate discovery, translation, and collaboration! news.westernu.ca/2026/04/west...

Our next Meet the Team Talk is happening on May 12 from 11 AM - 12 PM, with Dr. Marissa Lagman-Bartolome and Dr. Matthew Teeter as our speakers! To join, visit our website: knowpain.ca/eventschedule

Just 2 weeks left to apply: Tenure-track faculty position at the University of Pittsburgh for someone studying the mechanisms of pain. Looking for interactive colleagues. Please spread the word! Info here: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

It all starts tomorrow…. #CanadianPain26.

🎉 My final PhD paper is out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! We modelled spinal receptive fields to explore how spatiotemporally diverse tactile stimuli are processed, what goes wrong in #allodynia, and how #spinalcordstimulation combats it. 🔗 www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1... 🧵👇

Brain maps differ between people, but whether encoded information also differs depends on where you look. In some regions different layouts encode the same information, and representations converge like in artificial neural networks (ANNs). New preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Want to learn about what some of are thinking about chronic #pain? Gillian Best interviewed pain researchers, including Melanie Noel, @richellemychasiuk.bsky.social, @simonbeggslab.bsky.social, @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social, @jeffreymogil.bsky.social, @daspainbrain.bsky.social, me, & many more.

Happy to share the first publication from my lab: journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...

Apropos of nothing, prospective applicants for faculty and research positions should be sure to ask for accurate information about operating budgets, including whether a center or department is currently running a surplus or a deficit.

Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561

he (IW) and another woman (GL) with the same condition have been studied extensively and helped us learn a lot about somatosensory systems, c-tactile afferents, and pain. somewhere out there is a list of all the studies they have been in. here's on example www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

holy moly! Welcome to Canada, @ariellevine.bsky.social!

🚀 Ready to push the frontiers of #PainResearch? Join us this summer at the ResolvePAIN Summer School at the University Hospital Würzburg! 📅 July 14-16 Be part of a vibrant, international research community shaping the future of translational pain science. ⚡️ Limited spots: www.ukw.de/en/clinical-...

Great speaker and great talk! Rewatch it now if you missed it 🤩

this looks excellent!

Demetriou et al. find that women with chronic pelvic pain can be stratified into distinct subgroups using multimodal assessment, supporting personalized, pain-focused therapeutic strategies beyond traditional pelvic diagnoses. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/4mlf0Hn

We’re editing a Special Issue in the European Journal of Neuroscience and would love to see your work featured! If your research aligns with our theme, we encourage you to submit and be part of this exciting collection.📢 Call for papers: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...; Please share!

"For the past 15 years, my lab has been studying long-term cognitive impairments after infections with viruses. I’m interested in understanding how exposure to infection changes normal brain function." - Dr. Robyn Klein, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Neurovirology and Neuroimmunology #WesternU

@massih.bsky.social et al. find that baseline circulating endocannabinoid ligand concentrations are associated with individual differences in pressure pain threshold, but not thermal thresholds/tolerance, or temporal summation of pain. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/4tEJzdL

Our new paper (with Siemens Healthcare) showing how to rapidly design patient-specific pTx RF pulses to make lower-SAR homogeneous diagnostic-quality 7T SPACE and FLAIR MR images. Special thanks to all my NSERC reviewers who said this wouldn’t work 😉. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🧠 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧’𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐡𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧? In this study, we showed that tuning a brain rhythm called the individual alpha frequency (IAF) through #neurofeedback improves attentional performance. 1/7 🔗https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2026.121912

latest from the Davis Lab: journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

Truly beautiful

Women are three times more likely than men to get migraines, the leading cause of disability for ages 18–49. On a recent (MIS)Treated, @namshine.bsky.social spoke with @mnrajah.bsky.social about women’s brain health and the impact of hormones: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

Excited to share our new study on how the brain generates placebo pain relief! We developed a mouse model that recapitulates key features of human placebo analgesia, then used it to identify causal circuitry. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... today.ucsd.edu/story/neurob... 1/n

time to update my lectures again

There are moments in a career that force you to pause and take a hard look at how you lead. Recently, I’ve had one of those moments. I’ve shared a short reflection on leading through uncertainty. #Leadership #Experience lisa-porter.medium.com/learning-to-...