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!

PAIN 21 April 2026

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

European Journal of Neuroscience Call for Papers Understanding pain: Mechanistic insights and therapeutic pathways

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!

Interview with Dr. Robyn Klein- Western Alumni Magazine Western's new Canada Excellence Research Chair in Neurovirology and Neuroimmunology will drive breakthroughs on how viruses affect the brain.

"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

PAIN 20 April 2026

@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

Fast Online 3D SPACE and FLAIR Imaging at 7T Using Multiple Subject‐Specific Parallel Transmission Pulses Based on Subpopulation Universal Pulses Purpose In 3D SPACE and FLAIR sequences, designing single pTx RF pulse for excitation and refocusing pulses by scaling its amplitude can introduce artifacts. This study addresses this by designing m...

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 get migraines three times more than men and studies show that for women aged 18 to 49, migraines are the leading cause of disability around the world.

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...

Neurobiologists Hack Brain Circuits Tied to Placebo Pain Relief Scientists have identified the brain circuits tied to placebo pain relief. Researchers have known that placebo effects can be a powerful treatment, yet the underlying neurological mechanisms have not ...

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...

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time to update my lectures again

Learning to Lead through Uncertain Times Leadership is most often framed in terms of strategy, decisiveness, and outcomes. We are taught to bring order to complexity and to move…

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-...

Thank you to everyone who attended the
@westernknowpain.bsky.social Conference! We heard from a broad group of speakers on the importance of incorporating Indigenous voices into care structures, procedures + patient-clinician relationships, novel use of virtual reality for training + more.

proud to have joined this amazing group and looking forward to all the Ts we'll add in the next 30 years! (well, maybe 20 for me)

The complete morphology of a single LC-NE neuron.

First off, these cells are gigantic. This one, for example, has >72 cm of axon! To our knowledge, it’s the longest neuron ever fully reconstructed. I leave it to the reader as an exercise to estimate the length of a human LC neuron. 5

Successful Closed-loop Neurofeedback Alpha Frequency Modulation Enhances the Temporal Dynamics of Attention
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It is a great honour & a dream come true becoming a member of the @globalyacademy.bsky.social.

Looking forward to becoming a small part of this amazing community. Congrats to all incoming members (globalyoungacademy.net/gya-new-memb...) & see you all very soon!

🌟 Claustrum and cognitive control
This study explores the claustrum activation across during highly demanding cognitive tasks and how this might be related to how cognitive processes are compromised in neuropsychiatric disorders.
🔗 buff.ly/RKEoGKa

📚 New research from #EJN – The European Journal of Neuroscience! 🧠 Swipe and discover three new research reports revealing exciting findings in #neuroscience: 🔬 Auditory cortex asymmetry This study suggests how basic developmentally defined structures, such as cortical columns, remain untouched by the auditory cortex lateral specialisation, while intracortical connectivity shows diverse hemispheric asymmetries. These differences may be linked to how the auditory cortex functions are specialised between hemispheres. 🔗 https://buff.ly/AloWOdI 🏃 Running and stress recovery This research shows that running reduced behavioural changes caused by chronic stress in mice, restoring serotonergic receptor activity and highlighting potential targets for treating stress-related psychiatric disorders. 🔗 https://buff.ly/5CASxGn 🌟 Claustrum and cognitive control This study explores the claustrum activation across during highly demanding cognitive tasks and how this might be related to how cognitive processes are compromised in neuropsychiatric disorders. 🔗 https://buff.ly/anhRO7r 🗞️ Stay up to date with the latest research in #EJN: https://buff.ly/H0dYd4k

📚 New research from @ejneuroscience.bsky.social!

Discover three new research reports revealing exciting findings in #neuroscience. 👇️

🗞️ Stay up to date with the latest research in #EJN: buff.ly/QgfhCA3

Vegetative Patients May Be More Aware Than We Knew

Nice article about our @CIHR_IRSC funded research in the New York Times today @westernu.ca www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/m...

🚨 ⚡️ Check out this upcoming webinar⚡️ 🚨
Hosted by the Pain Research Forum (PRF) by IASP on April 23rd at 12PM EST.
Join us for a discussion of descending modulation from some fantastic leaders in the field.

Join Dr. Laura Wandner for Episode 6 of the Exploring Pain series.

Featuring expert insights from:
Mark Pitcher, PhD
Linda Porter, PhD

April 21, 2026
2 PM ET / 11 AM PT

Register: bit.ly/4msURPR

Open source is not just software! @cfmm.bsky.social we do hardware too! Supported by @braincanada.bsky.social

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An international mega-analysis of psychedelic drug effects on brain circuit function - Nature Medicine Analysis of neuroimaging datasets across five major psychedelics revealed a shared brain signature and provides a comprehensive insight into how these drugs reorganize brain architecture.

This paper has been a long time coming. Instead of reanalyzing the same old resting-state fMRI datasets, we combined nearly all datasets around the world. Note that we didn't exactly find indisputable evidence for "default mode network disintegration."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...