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Jan 16 2020
Providers’ Expectations Directly Transmit Placebo Effects to Patients via Facial Expressions
A new study shows that social transmission of placebo effects via subtle facial cues decreases experimental heat pain
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Jan 06 2020
Biased Opioid Agonists Isolated From an Australian Fungus
Core tetrapeptide backbone of bilorphin could serve as a structural framework for future compounds
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Dec 17 2019
A Newly Identified Scorpion Toxin Targets TRPA1
A cell-penetrating peptide from the venom of the Australian black rock scorpion activates TRPA1 to cause pain but not neurogenic inflammation
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Dec 16 2019
Let the Countdown Begin: The Top 10 PRF News Stories and Papers of the Year—and the Decade
News stories on pain classification and pain definition come out on top in 2019
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Dec 23 2019
IASP Pain Research Forum Webinar—Gut Microbes and Opioids: Implications for Pain Management and Opioid Use Disorder
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The IASP Pain Research Forum will host a webinar with Anna Taylor, PhD, University of Alberta, Canada, on Tuesday, January 28,...

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Dec 02 2019
IASP Pain Research Forum Webinar: The Role of the Hippocampal Extracellular Matrix in Pain and Its Associated Co-morbidities
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During a PRF webinar on December 2, 2019, Maral Tajerian discussed her recent work showing that the hippocampal extracellular matrix regulates...

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