To the colleagues and friends who find our paper overwhelming, and instead prefer to write and read more manageable papers with more focused messages: I respect your perspective and your approach to science greatly, and find it invaluable, of course. Both broad and focused

WEEK #31 Paper of the week by Thomas Riis in Jan Kubanek's lab : journals.lww.com/pain/fulltext/… LP of the week: Drug Church / Cheer open.spotify.com/album/2pQ3HNNk…

I have Asthma, allergies, dyslexia, ADD, anxiety, and Depression. But I will tell you that what you have does not define what you can become. Why Not You!

Made it to Amsterdam for IASP #WC2024! I will be presenting a poster on Wednesday 3:15PM, (WE457) on thalamocortical circuits in pain and placebo analgesia. Excited to connect w such a brilliant community of pain scientists this week!

How could we check if a gene therapy reached the desired brain region? Here, we noninvasively measure gene delivery and endogenous gene expression in specific brain sites with ultrasound-released synthetic serum markers. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Loved my time at IASP #WC2024! Here’s a peek into a day at the conference from an early career/North American Pain School alum perspective:

🔊 Pleased to share our new preprint is now out in the world! 🐭 Liam Browne biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/9

Throne of Blood (1956) Director: Akira Kurosawa

some sodium channels with "primarily peripheral" expression: Nav1.7 (Scn9a; left) is almost in all brain cells Nav1.8 (Scn10a; right) is in striatal GABA neurons (blue), hypothalamic glutamatergic neurons (red), among others via Allen ABC atlas, portal.brain-map.org/atlases-and-da…

1/5 NEW in NEURON! We asked what forelimb M1 contributes to striatal and behavioral dynamics. Short answer: almost everything*. Mark A Nicholas trained mice to perform a joystick reaching task, w/ and w/out a go cue, then lesioned CFA tinyurl.com/M1Lesions Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute CMU Mellon College of Science

⚡️🔌🧠🐭💤 Woohoo!! Exciting new milestone: First thalamocortical recordings in the lab from Raquel Adaia for new pain & sleep studies !! 🤩

Know someone with back pain? We're recruiting for a study of #psilocybin for chronic low back pain! screen: stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_da… Please RT ........................................... Close collab w TrPR Program @ UCSF Josh Woolley MD/PhD Michael Silver Berkeley Neuroscience #ChronicPain

Jess’s last day Penn Medicine !! 🥲 Farewell to an amazing scientist! 🎓 Her hard work, curiosity, and passion have left a lasting impact on the lab. Wishing Jess all the best in her next science adventure—your future is bright! 🌟

BOOM! science.org/doi/full/10.11… Patrik Ernfors and his team strike again. The mu-opioid expressing cells in the RVM and what they do to in the spinal cord to suppress pain is one of the biggest mysteries in the pain field. This paper is a huge advance.

BLA axons said 'no thanks CeA'

What if pain didn’t feel bad? Let’s talk about the fascinating medical case of Patient H.M. (Henry Malaison) who felt pain without suffering. #scicomm #chronicpain #painaffect

desk upgrades: Thunderbolt Dock Rain laptop stand Blue microphone BASE Object_05 camera stand Photo mat board TUL 0.5mm colored pens Blackwing 602 pencils Znewtech timer Bellhop mushroom lamp Captain Crush gripper FluidStance balance board Any other recs for office toys?