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.
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How Pain Arises–and What Might Stop It
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A Journalist-Turned-Patient Writes the Book on Chronic Pain
Judy Foreman, author of A Nation in Pain, discusses what it is like to have chronic pain, the reaction to her book, and what needs to be done to raise awareness of chronic pain.
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Pain Research in Animals: Why Do It, and What Can It Tell Us?
Jeffrey Mogil, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, discusses the rewards and challenges of studying pain in animals.
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The Brain in Pain
Karen Davis, University of Toronto, Canada, discusses how various brain imaging techniques work, why pain researchers are interested in them in the first place, and what the techniques can—and can not—tell us about pain in the brain.