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Jan 14 2019
Hippocampal Extracellular Matrix Modulates Chronic Pain and Related Memory Deficits
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Dec 17 2018
Year in Review: The Top 10 News Stories and Papers of the Week on PRF in 2018
News story on the third mechanistic descriptor of chronic pain, review article on failures in translation come out the winners
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Dec 17 2018
The Role of Expectations in the Pain Response
New research in healthy participants shows how expectancy effects can make pain a self-fulfilling prophecy
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Dec 10 2018
Mechanosensitive Ion Channel Piezo2 Mediates Tactile Allodynia
Studies in mice and humans suggest the channel could be a therapeutic target
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Jan 16 2019
The Shifting Landscape of Opioids for Pain: A Conversation With Jane Ballantyne
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This is an excellent paper investigating the analgesic effect of sucrose...
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This is an interesting study with translational potential. The authors...
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May 25 2018
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This is an interesting study that has demonstrated palmitoylation as a...
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