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Yesterday we were at The Montreal Children’s Hospital donating Brain Colouring books! A special thank you to @aecrpain, @rezasharif , Jane Edwards and the team at the Children’s foundation for making this donation happen! 🙏

a good read. also important to understand our roots as a field.

We have an exciting postdoc opportunity to study the spinal circuits involved in spatial restriction of pain. Please spread the word and get in touch if you’re interested in joining our team. Application details to follow! @uclnpp @uclbiosciences @jobRxiv

Reminder. Join us tomorrow for a talk by Yarimar Carrasquillo on the Amygdala and chronic pain.

Join us next Wednesday, Dec 4th, @ 4pm ET when Frontiers in Pain Research welcomes Yarimar Carrasquillo to speak about the amygdala and pain. Deets in graphic. Registration required for Zoom link: bit.ly/3CLPhFH @McGillMed @McGillDentistry @McGillScience @mcgillpainunit

Tonight the AECRP said goodbye and good luck to Magali Millecamps who has worked with us for 19 years. She starts a faculty position with UdeM on Dec 1st, so the count down is winding down. Magali has done many things while here, including being one of the co-founders of the @QNJPI_PAINtalks. And who is that man on the right with a full head of hair? Could that be @UTDPainLab?

A distributed brain response predicting the facial expression of acute nociceptive pain pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39526882/ @McGillDentistry @McGillMed @mcgillpainunit

Join us next Wednesday, Nov 20th, when Frontiers in Pain Research presents Eric Garland on the subject of chronic pain and opioid misuse. Deets in graphic The talk will be held both in-person and via Zoom. Register for Zoom here: bit.ly/4fksJKz

A shout out to Franco Carli, former Chair of Anesthesiology at McGill/MUHC, for the work he did advancing the idea of prehabilitation for patients schedule for surgery. There is growing international interest in this and patient outcomes look positive. From the article: "A person is evaluated for their exercise tolerance, physical strength, nutrition and mental health, and a customized plan is drawn up for them by a multidisciplinary team. Perioperative physicians, nurses, kinesiologists, physiotherapists, and nutritionists are all included and provide their expertise." For those who work in pain clinics, sound familiar? bit.ly/3AGo8mI @McGillMed @mcgillpainunit @mcgillanesthes

In an effort to bring more awareness to pain and tools that can be used to mediate pain, @theNeuronFamily and I have created a colouring book all about touch and pain in collaboration with our amazing colleagues @aecrpain @rqrd_qprn

Latest initiative from your friendly McGill Pain Center: Symposium international francophone sur la recherche sur la douleur : Un tremplin pour la collaboration scientifique. linkedin.com/pulse/symposiu… via @LinkedIn

The top med/doc university in Canada for 20 years in a row. So if you are interested in doing a PhD in a pain-related field, this is one more reason to do it with us :-)

Looking forward to hear your thoughts on this!

#SfN2024📍INCF booth (1759) 1pm on Oct. 7 Mon, I will showcase ElecFeX, a #MATLAB based GUI that incorporates data standard ⁦@NeurodataWB⁩. Many thanks to ⁦@vijayiyer312⁩ for coordinating and also thanks to ⁦@INCForg⁩ for hosting! linkedin.com/posts/matlab-f…

In the first talk of the is series @MantegazzaMassi will not only share exciting new data on Nav1.1 and its role in pathophysiology, but he will also remember Dr. Bill Catterall and his contributions to the sodium channel field. So be prepared for a special seminar next week!

Earlier this year we had a book launch for The Brain Colouring Book. It was a great event mixing together friends, colleagues and our kids! And as far as I know, this was the FIRST colouring book launch to be held at @mcgillu! :)

Congrats go out to Allan Basbaum on being the co-recipient of this year's Gerard Prize from the SfN. Allan has truly made important contributions to our understanding of pain and to neuroscience in general. From the Centre that Ron helped found to one of his early research staff, our heartfelt congratulations on this award.

Defining pain-related suffering requires partnership with people living with pain and careful critical thought: a commentary on the proposed definition by Noe-Steinmüller et pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39284042/ @McGillRehab

Feedback inhibition by a descending GABAergic neuron regulates timing of escape behavior in Drosophila larvae pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39196635/ @McGillScience @McGillMed @IPNMcGill

@AllesLab Thank you Sasha. The merit goes to @qiu_haoyi and the rest of the team.

Lovely work from @rezasharif's lab looking at firing patterns of PV+ neurons in spinal dorsal horn at different time points post-injury. Top drawer. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…