IASP Pain Research Forum Podcasts

Senior Manager's note: Emeralda Burke is a health researcher, patient advocate, and a person with lived experience. In 2013, she moved from Ireland to Toronto, Canada, after completing a degree in medicinal chemistry. One year later, she was struck as a pedestrian by a stolen car and now lives with chronic pain. She quickly realized how prevalent, underfunded, and underserviced chronic pain can be...

For its eleventh episode, The Pain Beat brought together experts to discuss the biological evolution of nociceptors, their subtypes, and plasticity as part of the Gulf Coast Consortium's #Pain2021 Webinar Series. These experts study nociceptors across a variety of animal models, including Drosophila, C. elegans, cephalopods, rodents, and humans. The discussion focused on how an evolutionary perspe...

Senior Manager's note: Kirsty Bannister, PhD, is an Associate Professor at King's College London, UK, and recently awarded the Patrick D. Wall Young Investigator Prize for Basic Science from the IASP . This prize recognizes an individual who has achieved a high level of independence as an outstanding scholar in the field of pain in basic science. Bannister focuses on bench-to-bedside pain research...

For its tenth episode, The Pain Beat brought together guests from a variety of career stages to share their experiences conducting pain and pain-related research during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their discussion highlighted unique and shared experiences, how research priorities and strategies shifted in response to the pandemic, as well as ways in which colleagues found and offered support.     Podca...

For its ninth episode, The Pain Beat brought together experts in how pain is measured clinically and experimentally. This multidisciplinary group discussed what is the difference between pain and nociception, why organisms experience pain and whether pain can be objectively measured since it is a subjective experience. Additionally, the group explored why researchers have relied on the measurement...

For its eighth episode, The Pain Beat gathered together a group of pain researchers with expertise in the study of sex differences in pain. The group discussed their own discoveries of sex differences in pain in the course of their research, why pain investigators should pay attention to sex differences and how they should go about examining them, and much more. Podcast participants include: Grego...

Editor's note: IASP will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024. Even though the anniversary is still a few years away, it already has us thinking about the history of IASP and the evolution of pain research over the past five decades. So, we are providing a series of podcasts that will cover both of those topics, featuring senior leaders in the field who have made major contributions to pain...

Editor's note: Gregory Dussor, PhD, is Associate Professor and Eugene McDermott Endowed Fellow in the Department of Neuroscience and Center for Advanced Pain Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. The focus of his work is the understanding of the pathophysiology of chronic headache disorders such as migraine, using a variety of preclinical models. In this podcast, Dr. Dussor speaks with PRF...

Editor's note: Fiona Boissonade, PhD, is Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Impact and External Engagement at the University of Sheffield School of Clinical Dentistry, UK. She is also an executive member of the University of Sheffield Neuroscience Institute and leads the Institute's "Technology: Devices and autonomous systems " cross-cutting theme. Dr. Boissonade has a major research intere...

Is there life beyond academia for pain researchers? That question is the focus of PRF's latest podcast – and the answer is a resounding "yes"! This optimistic outlook comes from four podcast participants who all successfully made the transition from studying pain in the ivory tower to alternative careers, including: --Alexandria Magnusdottir, PhD, Trainee Solicitor in Patent Litigation, Bristows,...

Eva Feldman, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US. She is Director of the University of Michigan ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) Center of Excellence. She also runs her own laboratory, the NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies, where she has devoted her career to the study of neurological diseases, with an emphasis on ALS and neuropathies, including diab...

Editor's note: IASP will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024. Even though the anniversary is still a few years away, it already has us thinking about the history of IASP and the evolution of pain research over the past five decades. So, we are providing a series of podcasts that will cover both of those topics, featuring senior leaders in the field who have made major contributions to pain...

Editor's note: IASP will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024. Even though the anniversary is still a few years away, it already has us thinking about the history of IASP and the evolution of pain research over the past five decades. So, we are providing a series of podcasts that will cover both of those topics, featuring senior leaders in the field who have made major contributions to pain...

For its seventh episode, The Pain Beat gathered together an international group of pain researchers to discuss brain imaging of pain in humans. The podcast focuses on how studies of expectation and the placebo effect have advanced our understanding in this area. What we've learned so far, whether pain brain imaging can be used as a diagnostic tool, and future prospects for neuroimaging are all add...

For its sixth episode, The Pain Beat gathered together an international group of pain researchers, science communicators and civic science advocates to discuss what effective, empathic and inclusive science communication looks like. Specific questions discussed in the podcast include: What are the major challenges chronic pain research faces in different parts of the world? How can we address thos...

For its fifth episode, The Pain Beat gathered together a group of pain researchers virtually to discuss how the mammalian nervous system encodes sensory modalities related to touch, pain and temperature. Are there labeled lines? Is there population coding? Do the mechanisms differ by location – the brain, spinal cord or periphery? Podcast participants include: Diana Bautista, PhD, UC Berkeley, US...

For its fourth episode, The Pain Beat gathered together a group of pain researchers via Zoom to discuss the use of human tissue in pain research and prospects for clinical translation of new knowledge emerging from this approach. Podcast participants include: Steve Davidson, PhD, University of Cincinnati, US Michael Hildebrand, PhD, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Clifford Woolf, MB, BCh, PhD,...

For its third episode, The Pain Beat gathered a group of pain researchers together to discuss ideas and issues related to the transition from acute to chronic pain. Podcast participants include: A. Vania Apkarian, PhD, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, US Annemieke Kavelaars, PhD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, US Arkady Khoutorsky, PhD, DVM, M...

For its second episode, The Pain Beat gathered together a group of pain researchers in Keystone, Colorado, US, where two joint Keystone Symposia, Somatosensation: From Detection to Perception and Pain: Aligning the Target , were being held from February 2-5, 2020. The podcast participants include: Allan Basbaum, University of California San Francisco, US Robert Gereau, Washington University School...

Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Pain Beat, The IASP Pain Research Forum's new monthly podcast series! Supported by a generous grant from The MAYDAY Fund, The Pain Beat brings together the world's leading pain investigators in order to spark dialogue and debate around important ideas in pain research. Guided by Rebecca Seal, Scientific Director of The Pain Beat, these podcasts feature open...

In this podcast in honor of IASP's 50th anniversary in 2024, Amanda C de C Williams, PhD , discusses her path to pain psychology, what she wants people with pain to know, the evolutionary perspective on pain, and much more.

Jeffrey Mogil, PhD, is the E. P. Taylor Professor of Pain Studies and the Canada Research Chair in the Genetics of Pain at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He has made seminal contributions to the field of pain genetics, sex differences in pain and analgesia, and pain testing methods in the laboratory mouse. In the podcast below, Dr. Mogil speaks with PRF Correspondent Oakley Morgan, a PhD s...

In this podcast in honor of IASP's 50th anniversary in 2024, Dr. Johan W.S. Vlaeyen, PhD, discusses his career and contributions to the development of the fear-avoidance model of pain.

In this podcast in honor of IASP's 50th anniversary in 2024, Dr. Eija Kalso discusses her career in the pain field, multidisciplinary pain care, translational research, and her involvement with IASP.

This podcast features Megan Detloff, PhD, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy and the Marion Murray Spinal Cord Research Center at Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, US. Detloff studies how rehabilitative exercise affects the molecular underpinnings that contribute to chronic pain development after spinal cord injury, among other interests....