Congrats! Incredibly well deserved 🎉

we've done a lot of retro tracing out of the ACC in mice and confirmed very little IC input. Neighbouring claustrum, however...

Check out the details for our upcoming seminar, and follow the link in our bio to sign up!

This posting closes Jan 19th. Please reach out if you have any questions.

Our lab, located at the University of Alberta (Canada), is hiring a postdoctoral scholar and/or PhD student to work on the contribution of genetic mutations to neurological disorder mechanisms and response to treatments. Please share widely! can-acn.org/postdoctoral...

Opioid receptor distribution in the claustrum-dorsal endopiriform complex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11....

Register for our November seminar now! Check out the link in our bio for more information.

#NAPainSchool News 📰 Check out our interview with Clifford Woolf, courtesy of NAPS Science Communicator Julia Nickols @j-nickols.bsky.social.

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From Mechanisms to Treatment of Pain: A Conversation with Clifford Woolf - Pain Research Forum Note: The following interview originally appeared on the North American Pain School (NAPS) web site and is republished here with the permission of NAPS. Editor’s note: The 2025 North American Pain Sch...

Check out this insightful interview done by the University of Alberta's own Julia Nickols, PhD candidate.
She interviews Clifford Woolf, PhD, MB, Bch and they discuss the arc of his career, the work he’s doing now, and much more!
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A fantastic journal on an upward trajectory with competitive publication fees. This journal punches above its weight - a must read for pain scientists.

Congratulations to Dr. Gabrielle Pagé, our 2025 Early Career Award Recipient.

Jen Stinson

IASP congratulates Jennifer Stinson, RN-EC, PhD, CPNP, FAAN, on receiving the 2025 Gairdner Momentum Award. Her work in digital health has advanced pain assessment and management for young people worldwide. bit.ly/4ivXJI0

Not shocking, but important: nociceptors fire → glutamate is released — with or without neuropeptides like SP or CGRP. This paper pushes the field past the idea that pain = peripheral neuropeptide release. Time to stop oversimplifying pain circuits and behaviors to single-molecule targets

As @bradleykerr.bsky.social says, ‘pain finds a way’

Dr. Jennifer Stinson is the first nurse to win a Gairdner Award. A nurse at Sick Kids and a professor at the U of T, she has "revolutionized pediatric pain management," using apps, VR and a human touch. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... @jenniferyang.bsky.social @gairdnerawards.bsky.social

Very very cool. And aligns with Bud Craig's argument that pain is just as much an interoceptive 'state' as it is a somatosensory 'event'

📊 41% of #ChildhoodCancer survivors live with chronic pain, 2x more than the general population.

A study by our member Nicole Alberts (@concordiau.bsky.social) highlights solutions. 🧘 🏃 🌿


🔎 Discover them 👉 zurl.co/Du4Pi

Trends in Outpatient Opioid Prescriptions for Cancer Pain Between 2016 and 2021 | JCO Oncology Practice PURPOSEIncreasing opioid regulations have resulted in reduced opioid prescriptions, including for cancer pain, despite guideline exemptions. Data after 2017 following the Centers for Disease Control's...

Opioid prescribing for cancer pain declined fivefold in recent years..... ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/... ... during same period opioid overdose deaths skyrocketed. & people claimed pain care for the dying was exempt from cuts...

Assistant / Associate Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with McGill University | 12837963 Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Toxicology (L000054

Tenure track position in pharmacology or toxicology at McGill, in Montreal!!!

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Senior researchers in the US looking for a new job check this out with Canadian Universities. These are prestigious chairs with 7-10 year research support. Salary is not linked to grants in Canada.

Classification of psychedelics and psychoactive drugs based on brain-wide imaging of cellular c-Fos expression - Nature Communications A challenge in psychiatric drug discovery is to predict the therapeutic potential of a novel compound. Here, the authors show that brain-wide imaging of immediate early gene expression can be used to ...

Can whole-brain imaging of cellular c-Fos signals be used to classify #psychedelics? 🧠🔬💊

Our study by @aboharbf.bsky.social and @pashadavoudian.bsky.social, developing an imaging and machine learning pipeline to test a panel of psychoactive drugs.

Paper here 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Assistant or Associate Professor - Western College of Veterinary Medicine Tenure track position in physiology, pharmacology and/or toxicology at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine

USask College of Vet Medicine is hiring a physiologist, pharmacologist, or toxicologist. Assistant or Associate Professor level. Details here: wcvm.usask.ca/departments/...

FDA approves first new type of pain medication in 25 years | CNN A new pain relief drug, suzetrigine, is a prescription pill that’s taken every 12 hours after a larger starter dose. It will be sold under the brand name Journavx.

It is accomplished www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/h...

Opinion | Why Drug Overdose Deaths Are Dropping for Some, Rising for Others (Gift Article) Drug overdose deaths are finally declining. But it’s going to take work to keep this trend going.

Overdose deaths are declining, but not for everyone. To prevent future deaths & end current disparities we must expand on what works: treating addiction & overdose like public health issues, not criminal problems. Read @maiasz.bsky.social in @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/o...

I am thrilled to announce that @daspainbrain.bsky.social Dave Seminowicz has joined the editorial team at Neurobiology of Pain. Dave is going to handle human brain study (fMRI, DTI, EEG, etc) papers. Huge development! #painresearch #neuroscience

The potential problem lurking in psychedelic neuroscience. Neuroscience's most popular tool for studying the psychedelic state may be fundamentally flawed.

There's a potential problem lurking in #psychedelic #neuroscience - fMRI (one of the most popular imaging modalities) relies on measures of blood oxygenation, and a little-known side effect of psychedelics is massive changes to cerebral bloodflow. #Neuroskyence
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