A new online therapy approach developed by NeuRA's Professor Sylvia Gustin and Dr Nell Norman-Nott is helping people with chronic pain, and a new report is helping researchers develop the next step.

You can read the full study here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100638

Brain training game offers new hope for drug-free pain management The first clinical trial of an interactive game that trains people to alter their brain waves has shown promise as a treatment for nerve pain – offering hope for a new generation of drug-free treatmen...

After a long journey of hardware and software development, we’re excited to share the first positive results: our in-house developed, gamified EEG neurofeedback system can reduce nerve pain. A big step forward in non-drug pain therapies!  

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Stress plays a key role in why chronic pain is linked to anatomical changes in the brain. Our research, "Stress‐Related Brain Alterations in Chronic Pain", has been just published in the European Journal of Pain. Read it here: doi.org/10.1002/ejp....

New chronic pain therapy retrains the brain to process emotions UNSW and NeuRA researchers have created an effective therapy for chronic pain that reduces pain intensity by focusing on emotional regulation.

New chronic pain therapy retrains the brain to process emotions | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Online Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Emotion Dysregulation in Chronic Pain This randomized clinical trial evaluates the efficacy of a hybrid self-directed and therapist-guided therapy for emotional dysregulation in adults with chronic pain.

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International Women’s Day: top universities led by women More than a quarter of the top 200 universities in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings are run by women, a number which is increasing year on year

Great to see wonderful Irene Tracey on top of the league www.timeshighereducation.com/student/best...

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”.


https://go.nature.com/4bpG2It

DEI Position

In a new editorial from Editor-in-Chief of PAIN @karenddavis.bsky.social reaffirms the journal’s commitment to considering #diversity, #DEI, and #GenderIdentity in pain research and management. bit.ly/3D5WgJO