For its ninth episode, The Pain Beat brought together experts in how pain is measured clinically and experimentally. This 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 of nociception for so long and offer paths forward for the research community including a discussion of new...

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.

Pioneering pain researcher Marshall Devor discusses his career path, including his work as a postdoc with Pat Wall, some of the history of the pain field, and much more.

In this IASP Pain Research Forum podcast, leading migraine researcher Gregory Dussor discusses his path to migraine research, mechanisms of migraine including differences between the sexes, the evolutionary purpose of migraine, and his much-ballyhooed performance in a video for Ted's Pain Cream.

Fiona Boissonade, PhD, discusses her work in the area of nerve repair and pain, the importance of bridging the translational divide in research, and more.

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.

The University of Michigan's Dr. Eva Feldman, a physician-scientist who studies ALS and neuropathies, discusses the problem of diabetic neuropathy, its causes and treatment, and her lab studies of this condition

In this podcast, Dr. Judith Turner discusses her journey in the field of pain psychology, the biopsychosocial model of pain, and her experience serving as IASP President.

In this podcast, pioneering pain researcher Dr. Barry Sessle discusses his background and early career, how the understanding of orofacial pain has evolved over the years, and what it was like to be the President of IASP.

This Pain Beat podcast discusses pain neuroimaging studies in people, with a focus on how studies of expectation and the placebo effect have advanced our understanding in this area. Podcast participants include: --Christian Büchel, MD, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany --Irene Tracey, DPhil, University of Oxford, UK --Tor Wager, PhD, Dartmouth College, Hanover, US --Howard Fields, MD, PhD, University of California San Francisco, US (moderator)

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.

In the fifth episode of The Pain Beat, researchers 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?

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.

A group of pain researchers gather to discuss ideas and issues related to the transition from acute to chronic pain.

In the second episode of The Pain Beat, leading pain researchers discuss whether optogenetics and chemogenetics are feasible approaches to pain treatment, and if so, how effective they might be.

This podcast discusses the following question: What Biological Levels Should Be Targeted to Produce the Most Effective Pain Therapies: Molecules? Cells? Circuits? Or Systems?

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. Here he discusses the definition of terms in the pain field, the evolutionary purpose of chronic pain, the behavioral assessment of pain in animals, and more.

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.

In this podcast, Megan Detloff speaks with PRF Correspondent Courtney Bannerman, a PhD student at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, to discuss the nature of spinal cord injury, the consequent development of chronic pain and how she studies this in animals, the effects of exercise on spinal cord injury pain, and much more.

Pediatric pain is under-recognized and under-treated throughout the world. Recently, a Lancet Child & Adolescent Commission was formed to address this critical problem. In this PRF podcast, three co-authors on the Commission, Paula Forgeron, RN, MN, PhD; Richard Howard, FFPMRCA; and Tonya Palermo, PhD, meet virtually with PRF Correspondent Wendy Gaultney to discuss the origins of the Commission’s work, the problem of pediatric pain, and the way forward to improve the lives of children...

K. Ray Chaudhuri, MD, DSc, Professor of Movement Disorders and Neurology at King’s College Hospital and King’s College London, UK, and Medical Director of the Parkinson Foundation International Centre of Excellence at King’s College, and Yazead Buhidma, a PhD student at the Wolfson Centre of Age-Related Diseases at King’s College London, discuss the problem of pain in Parkinson’s disease (PD), how researchers are studying PD pain in animals and what they are learning about its mechanisms.

Pain researcher Dr. Stephen McMahon, Sherrington Professor of Physiology at King’s College London, UK, discusses his early days in the pain research field, what it was like to train with Patrick Wall, the gate control theory of pain, central sensitization, and much more.

In this podcast, Dr. Maria Fitzgerald, PhD, discusses how she got into the pain field, what it was like to work with Patrick Wall, the science of pain in infants, and more.