Researchers are using optogenetics to understand and treat pain. Read our interview with Robert Gereau, Washington University in St. Louis, who is advancing this exciting approach in the pain field.
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Using Light to Study and Treat Pain: A Chat With Robert Gereau
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More Than Biology: A Psychosocial Approach to Chronic Pain
Pain researcher Francis Keefe, Duke University, discusses his path to pain research, why chronic pain is best understood as a complex, multifaceted experience involving much more than biology alone, and the studies he is working on now.
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Understanding Chronic Pelvic Pain: A Chat with Julie Christianson
Julie Christianson, University of Kansas Medical Center, discusses the causes and treatment of chronic pelvic pain, her latest research, and the questions that remain for researchers to answer.
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From Patient to Advocate: A Chat with Cindy Steinberg
Steinberg, National Director of Policy and Advocacy at the U.S. Pain Foundation, discusses her own experience with chronic pain, her advocacy efforts to advance pain care and research, and what people can do to get involved to help raise awareness of chronic pain.
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How Pain Arises–and What Might Stop It
Allan Basbaum, University of California, San Francisco, US, explains the basics of pain sensation, how acute pain differs from chronic pain, and how the new understanding of pain could lead to novel medications.