Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain /channels/taxonomy/term/421/all en Physiology Seminar in collaboration with the Pain Centre: Dr. William Renthal:" Cell types and states of headache and pain" /channels/channels/event/physiology-seminar-collaboration-pain-centre-dr-william-renthal-cell-types-and-states-headache-and-350386 <p>The trigeminal and dorsal root ganglia transduce sensory information from the environment to the central nervous system.</p> Thu, 31 Aug 2023 14:18:37 +0000 webfull 191712 at /channels Seminar - The role of the voltage gated sodium channel Nav1.7 in human pain and pleasure /channels/channels/event/seminar-role-voltage-gated-sodium-channel-nav17-human-pain-and-pleasure-303092 <p><em>There has been significant progress over the last decade in understanding the molecular basis by which sensory neurons transduce and subsequently transmit noxious (ie. tissue damaging) stimuli giving rise to the sensation of pain.</em></p> Wed, 04 Dec 2019 14:24:18 +0000 webfull 156051 at /channels Dr. Robert Gereau - seminar cancelled /channels/channels/event/dr-robert-gereau-seminar-cancelled-301509 <p><strong>This seminar has been cancelled.</strong></p> <p>Title: Translational pain research: targeting sensitization</p> Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:39:59 +0000 webfull 154202 at /channels 50th anniversary of "Pain Mechanisms: A New Theory" /channels/news/50th-anniversary-pain-mechanisms-new-theory-256801 <p>November 19 marks the 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the ground-breaking paper, “<a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/150/3699/971.full.pdf">Pain Mechanisms: A New Theory</a>” co-authored by ϲ’s Ronald Melzack, and the late Patrick Wall, which introduced <a href="http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/d/d_03/d_03_cl/d_03_cl_dou/d_03_cl_dou.html#2">gate-control theory</a>.</p> Tue, 17 Nov 2015 18:58:47 +0000 webfull 114041 at /channels Dr. Mark Ware, vice-chair of task force on cannabis /channels/news/dr-mark-ware-vice-chair-task-force-cannabis-261602 <p>World-renowned pain specialist and medical cannabis researcher Dr. Mark Ware, director of clinical research at the Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit of the ϲ University Health Centre (MUHC), has been nominated vice-chair of an important federal task force that will provide guidance to the Canadian government as it prepares to introduce legislation to legalize marijuana in spring 2017.</p> Thu, 30 Jun 2016 18:54:07 +0000 webfull 119741 at /channels