NIAMS resource-based Center that fosters and supports research and training aimed at understanding mechanisms underlying pain in rheumatic and MSK diseases
Join us for the first C-COMP seminar of the academic year! Special guest appearances by two visting colleagues from Oulu. Contact us to register. Monday Aug 25, 3 pm CST
Thrilled to share our new paper in @NatureHumBehav!
nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
We show that combining biological 🧬 and psychosocial 📋 data offers a much stronger, more reliable path to predicting pain and diagnosis. 🧵
Microglia feet are highly dynamic and can be in contact with dense networks of axons.
In this video by our #ElectronMicroscopy team using MICrONS data, a microglia (purple) contacts with an excitatory pyramidal neuron (gold). Slowly the axons under the feet are revealed.
🌈🧠 In this beautiful rainbow collage, different types of cells in the mouse brain are illuminated thanks to a new suite of highly-specific genetic tools called the Armamentarium.
Discover how they could open the doors to new brain disease therapies: alleninstitute.org/news/scie…
You only have 3 days left to apply for the #LakeConference on Neural Coding and Dynamics! Don't let the sun set on your opportunity on this small and lively gathering of researchers in this emerging field of neuroscience. Apply by 5/23.
Learn more: alleninstitute.org/events/la…
😍 Just published this month!
A weight reduction of ≥7.4kg associated with sig. improvements in knee #osteoarthritis pain+function
#FREE Read more about the effectiveness of weight loss interventions for overweight adults with knee osteoarthritis - doi.org/pf2c
Flores-García et al. find that listening to music increases dopaminergic activity in the mesolimbic pathway and sex-dependent reduction in allodynia and anxiety-like and depression-like behavior. Learn more in #PAINbit.ly/4hiDlus