Thanks to @massih.bsky.social for inviting me to co-author this commentary @science.org Mapping the anatomy of placebo analgesia | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Somatotopic organization of brainstem analgesic circuitry | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Conditioned Pain Modulation, Placebo and Offset Analgesia: Rates of Behavioural Expression of Inhibitory, Nonresponse and Facilitatory Pain Modulatory Effects - Crawford - 2025 - European Journal of Pain - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A history of injury enhances affective and sensory responses to predator threat by sensitizing corticosterone release through TRPA1 receptor signaling: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our new #OpenAccess Hormones & Behavior paper has dropped, featuring undergrad Jailyn. Maternal immune activation during the lactational period alters offspring behavior, reproductive development, & immune function in mice: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #OpenScience #BrainResearch #NeuroSky

Neural circuit underlying individual differences in visual escape habituation www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

rdcu.be/egC1Z Our study explores how placebo analgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia affects pain in humans and rats. Using c-Fos in rats and fMRI in humans, we report significant common brain activity patterns. Our findings validate animal models for placebo research. #painresearch #painpapers

Register for the @Australian Pain Society 45th Annual Scientific Meeting, 13 – 16 April 2025, in Melbourne, Australia. Experience this beautiful city and a diverse program of pain management research, education, theory, and practice. Learn more and register: bit.ly/3R5xyN1

🌷 Happy National Flower Day 🌷 Cortex, brain. Neurons (NeuN, magenta), axon initial segments (Ankyrin-G, green), nuclei (DAPI, blue) #FluorescenceFriday #nationalflowerday #painneuroscience

Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities - anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… We wish to thank the donors and their families whose altruism enables the continuation o#anatomym#educationon an#researchch including this study.

Don't miss the first SoMs Neuroscience Theme Meeting for 2025 - Tuesday 18 Feb with two fabulous speakers, Asheeta Prasad , and @nataliematosin.bsky.social ⬇️ @kevinkeay.bsky.social @sydneyuni.bsky.social

New study with combined 7 Tesla MRI imaging and PET scan finds altered structures of nerves and neuroinflammation in migraine patients. Vey robust design that includes a control group and same cases as right/left side dominant migraines as controls. #painresearch #neuroskyence #physio 🧪🛟

Are you interested in neuropathic #PainResearch #painscience? 🧪🧠? Get your abstract in now to join us for #NeuPSIG2025 in Berlin! neupsigcongress.org

We show, glial changes in the peripheral nerve and brain in both nerve-injured and sham-injured rats using PET in a preclinical model of neuropathic pain readily translated for human #painresearch studies. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Riding the year out on a high ✨ - latest paper out now in @pnas.org! ☺️ 🙏 Here we describe a role for the proton-sensing GPCR, GPR65 in mediating joint pain from fibroblast-like synoviocytes! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #PainResearch #Neuroskyence More on this work below 👇 🧵 [1/10]

Happy to share a recent podcast featuring awesome postdoc Dr James Kang from our lab talking with the Executive Dean of our Faculty about his recent work shows.acast.com/65b6ec6b1581...

The paraventricular hypothalamus processes visceral and somatic pain in distinct ways: Visceral pain neurons express P2X3R and target the lateral septal nucleus, while somatic pain neurons express VIPR2 and project to the zona incerta, aiding targeted pain therapies. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

1/✨ New paper in #eNeuro! We looked at how dominance behaviors vary across mouse strains—turns out, it’s not one-size-fits-all! Comparing CD1 & C57 male mice, we found strain-specific dominance behaviors that could change how we study social hierarchy in the lab…🧵 Paper here: tinyurl.com/bdeuf6s9

Was delighted to give Cambridge Philosophical Society’s AV Hill Lecture, “Pain: Why does it exist, how does it work & how can we more effectively treat it?” An intro. to pain & overview of some of the exciting things people in our lab are doing! #PainResearch #Neuroskyence youtu.be/6dGjfbaRIfk

Gastric pain ascending pathway revealed: A glutamatergic tetra-synaptic brain circuit links the stomach to the brain via the vagus nerve in mice, offering new targets for relieving visceral pain! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And now more from our great collaborator Prof LukeHenderson’s lab. Thomas Love shows fantastic 7T MRI studies identifying discrete brainstem nuclei participating in offset analgesia. Nice !!! #painresearch

And the next speaker is Molly from the lab talking about a very exciting finding looking at microglial morphology in the PAG in a preclinical model of trigeminal neuralgia… so proud of what she has achieved. Future #painresearch scientist.

Starting the day with our undergraduate Honours research presentations. Darcey kicks off by reporting on her study investigating fear avoidance and its neural correlates in a preclinical model of trigeminal neuropathy. Awesome work with Dr James_wm_Kang #painresearch

First post to bsky eep.. Work from my PhD was (finally) accepted: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... The main findings: as spinal projection neurons axons ascend to the brain they are influencing spinal circuits, adding a layer of complexity to their role and function locally. More details below...

The talk that I gave for the Cambridge University Alumni Festival back in September is now up online - Pathways to Pain: How to cure not cause! #PainResearch #neuroskyence www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qjF...

Two BOOM!s in one day: www.nature.com/articles/s41... This flies totally in the face of what I think I know about visceral pain, but when evidence challenges your preconceived notions, maybe it is time to consider changing my gastric pain view.

Too right @nataliematosin.bsky.social it is such a crucial part of teaching clinicians of the future to have research intensive fellows adding value to the mix. Your research will impact their practice in the not too distant future 🧠

Beautiful work from Jason Radley and team #❤️thePAG … www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...

If you feel like we missed you (or anyone else) in this *Behavioral and Preclinical Neuroscience* starter pack, please comment below 👇👇 #animalbehaviorl #preclinicalresearch #neuroscience go.bsky.app/7cNykut