<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone, <div><br></div><div>Just a reminder about the talk tomorrow. </div><div><br></div><div>Bryan </div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 1:05 PM, Bryan Tripp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bptripp@gmail.com" target="_blank">bptripp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone, <div><br></div><div>Please join us for the first CTN talk of 2018. Steve Prescott will join us from the University of Toronto. The title and abstract follow. Hope to see you there! </div><div><br></div><div>Bryan </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Somatosensory coding gone wrong: The origins of neuropathic pain</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>Pain is the normal sensory response to noxious stimulation. But pathological changes in neural coding can result in innocuous somatosensory input being misperceived as painful. This so-called neuropathic pain is notoriously difficult to treat and is, therefore, a significant clinical problem. In my presentation, I will discuss our ongoing work to uncover the cellular and circuit properties that control how somatosensory information is normally processed, and how pathological changes in those properties contribute to neuropathic pain. The identification that certain pathological states are degenerate (i.e. can be produced via distinct molecular changes) may help explain why neuropathic pain is so difficult to treat.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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