• The Nociceptor
• 43 min
  1. Primary afferent nociceptors

  • Prof. Hermann Handwerker
• 52 min
  2. Huxley’s science fiction: ion channels in pain, pain resilience, and beyond

  • 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
• 57 min
  18. Congenital syndromes of pain and painlessness

  • Prof. Geoff Woods
  • Prof. James Cox
• Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
• 43 min
  19. Descending control systems

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

  • Prof. Emeran Mayer
• 40 min
  21. Sodium channels and pain

  • Prof. Stephen Waxman

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1. Introduction
2. Migraine headaches
3. Trigeminovascular system
4. Cortical spreading depression (CSD)
5. Factors modulating CSD
6. Cardinal features of CSD
7. CSD imaging
8. MR pertubation vs. CSD blood flow (rodent)
9. Mechanism for CSD initiation and propagation
10. Genetic mutations and CSD
11. Familial hemiplegic migraine: types-1,2, and 3
12. FHM-1
13. Mutations of Cav2.1-alpha1A in humans and mice
14. Threshold for evoking CSD in tg mutant mice
15. Generation of R192Q and S218L mutant mice
16. CSD frequency in R192Q KI mouse
17. Behavior of WT vs. R192Q mutant mouse
18. Phenotype of S218L mutation in humans
19. Representative CSD tracings
20. Behavior after CSD: S218L
21. Striatal recordings
22. Mutated genes: FHM-2
23. Mechanism for CSD generation in FHM-2
24. FHM-3
25. Sex hormones and CSD
26. CSD in R192Q KI mouse: male vs. female
27. CSD: modulation by sex steroids
28. Prophylactic drugs and CSD
29. Prophylaxis of migraine
30. Prophylactic drugs decrease CSD susceptibility
31. Drug impact on electrically evoked CSD
32. Time response
33. Hypoxic stress and CSD
34. NADH during spreading depression
35. Summary
36. Acknowledgements

Topics Covered

• Migraine headache
• Pathophysiology and importance of cortical spreading depression (CSD)
• Evidence for CSD in human cortex
• Susceptibility to CSD as modified by genetic mutations
• Susceptibility to CSD as modified by ovarian hormones
• Prophylactic drugs render the brain resistant to CSD
• Hypoxia insult during the propagation of CSD

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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. Michael Moskowitz has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.