Biophysical simulations of fMRI responses using realistic microvascular models: insights into distinct hemodynamics in humans and mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.08.680976v1

pain research @westernu.ca will continue to grow

www.schulich.uwo.ca/rapport/2025...

@westernknowpain.bsky.social @westernuwin.bsky.social @westernuresearch.bsky.social

Our next speaker for our Meet the Team Talk is Dr. Tommy Chan, the Director of the John H. Kreeft Headache Clinic and an Assistant Clinical Professor at Western University! We'll be starting at 12 with some announcements and updates! To join, visit: knowpain.ca/meettheteam

Our new paper is out in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences; a perspective paper on the DMN, titled "Embodying the default mode network: self-related processing from an embodied perspective"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just incredible findings, and a beautifully written paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Get your shingrix vaccine! You do not want peripheral neuropathy, and as a bonus you get substantial protection from later development of dementia.

Counting the days to @IASPpain’s World Congress on Pain 2026 in Bangkok? Make the wait easier by revisiting #PAIN’s collection of articles from the 2024 plenary speakers bit.ly/3K7OuT6

wow - and it it's free! great lineup of speakers and topics

It’s official. 🎉Grateful to receive NIH funding for two R01s: one as Sole PI and another in collaboration with UCSD. Thank you to my career mentors and team for their continued support and guidance. @umsomneurosci.bsky.social

New layer-fMRI preprint using simultaneous layer-fMRI with EEG at 7T. Establishing an acquisition and analysis setup to capture layer-fMRI correlates of spontaneous alpha power variations.
By Marsh et al.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We are proud to launch what we think is going to be fantastic opportunity for pain neuroscientists and clinicians to learn the foundations of pain neuroscience

looks decent

also improvements in physical function and sleep

What do you think of this preliminary evidence from Tagne et al. in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social showing evidence of dietary prevention of pain chronification? Check out this Editor’s Pick and Qiufu Ma’s comment on #PRF bit.ly/46UsALK

attention pain ECRs: this is a great opportunity

Human dorsal root ganglia neuronal cell line to study nociceptive signaling: a new pipeline for pain therapy. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.27.674468v1

Science is self correcting. Finally!

Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

While Canada plans for another round of CERC hirings (which costs millions); support to retain international talent & support 🇨🇦 researchers may be cut!

Sign this letter to request @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social to stop the proposed cuts to
research & innovation!

Psilocybin ameliorates neuropathic pain-like behaviour in mice and facilitates gabapentin-mediated analgesia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.15.676273v1

Beyond Circadian: A Yearlong Electroencephalography Study Reveals Hidden Ultralong-term Sleep Cycles https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.14.676090v1

starting now!

1st paper from Sadler Lab is out!! Highlights: 1) A. muciniphila reverses sickle cell (SCD) pain, 2) fecal transplant from SCD mice induces pain via bilirubin-TRPM2 vagal signaling, 3) BilR+ bacteria less abundant in SCD patient poo, 4) RNAseq on HUMAN nodose ganglia! www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Happy to share our recent work attempting to better understand the impact of early life maternal separation on locus coeruleus function. Super proud of first author (the now Dr.) Chayla Vazquez. She brought this idea when she joined in… March 2020… and she carried it through these rough few years!