MAIN TOPICS

 

  • Pain: what have we learned from transgenic mice?
  • Neurobiology of addiction
  • Cytokine antagonists in rheumatoid arthritis
  • Hypervigilance, attention, fear and catastrophising
  • RTCs vs. real life clinical experience
  • Contribution of non-neural cells to pain hypersensitivity
  • Can pain trigger neurodegeneration and cognitive deficits?
  • Peripheralized analgesics
  • Genetics of individual differences in pain sensibility
  • Painful peripheral neuropathies
  • Changing the public's perception of pain
  • Placebo and cognitive approaches to pain management
  • Sex hormones and pain
  • Changes in gene expression in neuropathy
  • Efficacy of exercise and physiotherapy
  • Pain pharmacogenetics
  • Viscero-visceral and viscero-somatic interactions
  • Evidence of efficacy in complementary and alternative medicine
  • The science of rehabilitation medicine
  • Clinical case discussions
  • Managing low back pain and sciatica
  • Public and professional pain education
  • Pain assessment in the clinic vs. the laboratory
  • Nurse prescribing in pain management
  • Epidemiology of pain management in primary care
  • Do neuropathic and non-neuropathic pain really differ?
  • Optimizing drug combinations for pain management
  • Diagnostic injections for chronic pain
  • Invasive treatment for spinal pain
  • Practice and ethics of end of life pain management
  • Orofacial pain
  • Chronic pain syndromes during pregnancy
  • Pain paroxysms
  • Pain control in cognitively impaired individuals
  • Pediatric postoperative pain management
  • Backpain, RSD and migraine in children
  • Tolerance and sensitization in opioid therapy
  • The philosophy and ethics of pain
  • Impact of opioids on cognition and performance
  • Headache and migraine
  • Anti-convulsants for neuropathic pain and headache
  • Stress and pain
  • Managing central pain
  • Attention, attention bias and secondary prevention
  • Cues of pain and distress
  • Visceral and cardiac pain
  • Cancer pain