Etienne Vachon-Presseau

Super excited to share our new preprint! medrxiv.org/content/10.648… We built global reference curves of pain from 6.1M people in 118 countries 🌍 to find out how pain unfolds across the lifespan, and how individual- and country-level risk factors shape these trajectories.

Our new @NatureHumBehav paper shows why we need a holistic pain biomarker framework. ML on blood tests, brain/bone imaging & genetics predicts clinical diagnoses but falls short on subjective pain. Adding psychosocial (mood, sleep, stress) boosts both. shorturl.at/vxxeO

Our new @NatureComms paper: We used UK Biobank data (n≈193K) to build ML models predicting tinnitus presence (driven by hearing health) and severity (influenced by mood, neuroticism & sleep). A simple 6-item POST questionnaire forecasts 9-yr outcomes. shorturl.at/4AF4P

Current projections estimate 153 million people will be living with dementia by 2050. Nearly half of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by tackling 14 risk factors starting in childhood, suggests new report from a standing Lancet Commission: buff.ly/46nvoPR

@b2_kaya @PAINthejournal Nice congrats

Our new lab paper suggests that almost all (between 75-90%) cognitively intact people with abnormal plasma p-tau217 values subsequently developed MCI when followed for <10 years after their blood test. (14% in A-T-) I have mixed feeling of being happy and scarred... 😳#Alzheimer

Tenure-track faculty position in medical imaging! Doing MRI or PET in imaging in cardiovascular, neurological disease or cancer? Contact me if you want to know more about living and working at U Sherbrooke! usherbrooke.ca/emplois/filead…

Our latest preprint is here: shorturl.at/ckAV5. Using the UK Biobank, All of Us, and Open Pain portal, we propose a holistic framework to optimize the prediction of biomarkers for chronic pain.

@JillianEHardee @m_wall Thank you !

@sirileknes @dmellingsen Congrats !

Congratulations on making full professor, @dmellingsen! Definitely an occasion to celebrate with our joint labs 👏🥳 So happy to have you back in Oslo doing great science here

🧠 Exciting news! 🎉 Our UK Biobank connectome resource is officially released on UKB showcase! The paper is now published, and we're thrilled to share the largest human brain network dataset to date with the research community. #HumanConnectome (1/6) 🔗 twitter.com/Sina_Mansour_L…

@sTeamTraen @StuartJRitchie Yes indeed

@StuartJRitchie That is not bad at all. Slight Québec accent perhaps.

I tried that instant AI translation tool (labs.heygen.com/video-translate) and it's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. I gave it a 35 second video of me speaking English. And this is what I got - that's my voice! But I don't speak a word of German...

@DerekGriffin86 @machall2110 I believe there is one or two rebuttals to this paper. Fibromyalgia is indeed not simple, perhaps central amplification, early life events may play a role (but not the only factor). New models need to test this. Theoretical models are fine but we can/should/can actually test them

@machall2110 There is nothing simple about the underlying physiology.

An imbalance between perception of threat vs safety as a driving force behind pro-nociceptive mechanisms in fibromyalgia? nature.com/articles/s4158…

@head_like_egg @giacomocart2014 Psychological measures always win.

Come check out my poster “Novel Approach to Overadjustment Bias in Neuroimaging Research” poster #764 @OHBM

Did you know @IASPpain requires you to DELETE your preprint if your paper is accepted there? Couldn’t believe it when I heard.

@mlopezsola82 @FndPortal @NatureMedicine Thank you !

@evp82 @FndPortal @NatureMedicine Amazing work Etienne!! Congratulations!!

Our paper about chronic pain led by @TanguaySabourinis out in @NatureMedicine | #Sec10" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nature.com/articles/s4159…. This article introduces the concept of pain spread in chronic overlapping pain conditions and shows that it can be predicted. (1/4)

@DrCMcMaster 🥲but the same features were applied to a wide range of diagnosed medical conditions with relatively good success. But agree with your take home message…

@dmellingsen @laurenatlas @NatureMedicine Thank you !

@evp82 @laurenatlas @NatureMedicine Huge congrats, Etienne! 🥳