• The Nociceptor
• 43 min
  1. Primary afferent nociceptors

  • Prof. Hermann Handwerker
• 40 min
  2. Sodium channels and pain

  • Prof. Stephen Waxman
• Central Nervous System Mechanisms of Pain Generation
• 46 min
  3. Pain mechanisms in the spinal cord

  • Prof. Fernando Cervero
• 48 min
  4. Central sensitization

  • Prof. Clifford Woolf
• 41 min
  5. Thalamo-cortical pain mechanisms

  • Prof. Frederick Lenz
• Pain Modulation: Mechanisms
• 36 min
  6. Opioid receptor pharmacology and pain

  • Prof. Margarita Puig
• 36 min
  7. The descending modulation of pain

  • Dr. Kirsty Bannister
• 48 min
  8. Spinal drug delivery: technology, biology and toxicology

  • Prof. Tony Yaksh
• 22 min
  9. Forebrain mechanisms of pain modulation

  • Prof. M. Catherine Bushnell
• Major Pain Conditions: Presentations and Mechanisms
• 52 min
  10. Visceral pain and visceral hypersensitivity

  • Prof. Gerald Gebhart
• 46 min
  11. Neuropathic pain: presentation, mechanisms and management

  • Dr. Chris Wells
• 37 min
  12. Cortical spreading depression and translational mechanisms in migraine headache

  • Prof. Michael Moskowitz
• Pain Management: Clinical Approaches
• 71 min
  13. Clinical pharmacology of pain

  • Prof. Eija Kalso
• 63 min
  14. Psychological approaches to pain

  • Prof. Jennifer Haythornthwaite
• Other Pain Topics
• 47 min
  15. Pain in children

  • Prof. Patricia McGrath
• 35 min
  16. Pain processing in early life

  • Prof. Maria Fitzgerald
• 37 min
  17. The genetics of pain

  • Prof. Jeffrey S. Mogil
• Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
• 43 min
  18. Descending control systems

  • Prof. Ronald Dubner
• 40 min
  19. Functional pain disorders

  • Prof. Emeran Mayer

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Navigable Slide Index

1. Introduction
2. Clinical pain syndromes
3. Neuronal plasticity
4. Nociceptive pain
5. The pain pathway (1)
6. The nociceptor - "pain fiber"
7. Features of nociceptor
8. Kinds of neuronal plasticity
9. Inflammatory pain
10. The pain pathway (2)
11. Nociceptor sensitizors
12. Inflammation
13. Neuropathic pain
14. Dysfunctional pain
15. Treatment of clinical pain
16. Central sensitization (1)
17. Central sensitization in the spinal cord
18. Pain signaling relay in to the brain
19. Tactile allodynia
20. Central sensitization (2)
21. The pain pathway (3)
22. Activity-dependent central sensitization (1)
23. Activity-dependent central sensitization (2)
24. Activity-dependent central sensitization (3)
25. Transcription-dependent central sensitization (1)
26. Transcription-dependent central sensitization (2)
27. Transcription-dependent central sensitization (3)
28. Synaptic disinhibition
29. Structural synaptic plasticity
30. Stimulus and response
31. Neuroimmune interactions

Topics Covered

• Clinical pain syndromes
• What is responsible for the conversion of high threshold nociceptive pain to low threshold clinical pain?
• Nociceptive pain
• Neuronal plasticity
• Inflammatory pain
• Nociceptor sensitizors
• Inflammation
• Neuropathic pain
• Dysfunctional pain
• Treatment of clinical pain
• Central sensitization
• Secondary hyperalgesia/tactile allodynia
• Activity-dependent central sensitization
• Transcription-dependent central sensitization
• Synaptic disinhibition
• Structural synaptic plasticity
• Neuroimmune interactions

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Series:

• Pain and the Control of Pain

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Neuroscience

Therapeutic Areas:

• Neurology

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on January 26, 2009

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Clifford Woolf has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.