Original: Ariane Suhood (@BrainStARLab) and team unveil patterns of corticomotor reorganization that may contribute to functional deficits following acute hamstring injury

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Original: Edwin Aroke PhD, CRNA (@UABSON) and team find that the pace of biological aging correlates with pain severity and interference

— Slowing epigenetic aging may improve pain outcomes

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Original: Dr. Benedetti et al. used mismatch conditioning to create placebo nonsresponders

— Study participants do not get what they expect → Expectations of analgesia reduce → Placebo analgesia abolished

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Original: Rooney et al (USYD Psychology) explored influence of attention bias on nocebo hyperalgesia

—Conditioning to nocebo hyperalgesia mediated by negative expectancy via anticipatory anxiety

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Original: Team Taipei Medical University suggest that microbial dysbiosis might be associated with psychological distress in #fibromyalgia

— Supports role of brain-gut axis dysfunction in FM mechanisms

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Missed the action in Seattle? You can read all the poster abstracts presented at the 2024 US Association for the Study of Pain Annual Scientific Meeting at the link below! 📝

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Original: Ritu Basnet Saurab Sharma, PhD and co. made the first Nepali adaptation of the Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire

— Showed reliability, validity, & presented novel association with sleep, resilience & happiness

Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

We also want to highlight our runner-up investigators:
Moeno Kume, PhD (Moeno Kume)
Erica Branham, PhD
Amanda Stone, PhD (@amandadlstone)
Madelyn Frumkin, MA (@MaddyFrumkin)

Congratulations on your fantastic Journal of Pain manuscripts!

🎉Announcing this year's Gebhart Award Winner:

Trevor Lentz
Duke MSK

For an outstanding first-author manuscript in the Journal of Pain by an early-career investigator. Congratulations!

Paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Review: Prof. Ryan & colleagues highlight that Pain Science Education can correct public misconceptions about chronic pain to overcome barriers to best practice pain care

— Need to ensure all stakeholders are involved in public messaging campaigns

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Review: Alberto et al. conducted a systematic review on sleep and endogenous pain modulation.

— Qualitatively, sleep may be linked with impaired pain inhibition, but NOT quantitatively
— No links found b/w sleep and pain facilitation

Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Review: Mara E. Tynan (@JDPClinicalPsy) and co. review the relationship between momentary pain and physical activity in adults with chronic pain using ambulatory assessment methods.

Full Article: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Focus: Scott Tagliaferri and team show that mean differences can allow for comparison b/w groups, but common effect size thresholds are arbitrary

— Propose 3 methods to derive specific, biopsychosocial-outcome effect sizes

Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Focus: @dr_melissa_da and co. highlight more skillful, effective therapists demonstrated 10x better patient response rates

— Recommendations for assessing and reporting on therapist quality in future trials

Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Featured: Andrew Moore Christopher Eccleston and co-authors review #cannabidiol ( #CBD ) products for pain.

Put simply, 'there is no good reason for thinking that CBD relieves pain.'

Free, Full Article: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Today at #USASP2024 - Join Drs Dr. Tonya Palermo, Dr. Rajesh Khanna of the KhannaLabUF, Yenisel Cruz-Almeida (she, her, hers) & Mark Bicket, MD, PhD, FASA 🇺🇸 from The Journal of Pain from 3:30-5:00PM on Forecasting the Future in Pain Research: Editors’ Picks for 2024
US Association for the Study of Pain

Original: Yang Wand & Jeril Varghese et al. (TMD Studies at UMB) examined the relationship b/w sleep disturbances and experimentally-induced placebo effects

— Greater insomnia severity and poor sleep quality ➡associated with smaller placebo effects

FREE: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Happening today!

Original: Stefanie Meeuwis (Psychology JU), Przemysław Bąbel, et al. show that it's difficult to disentangle placebo from nocebo hyperalgesia

— Existing observational learning models may need re-imagining

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