[CTN] CTN seminar: Steve Prescott (University of Toronto) 3:30 January 23, PAS 2464

[Bryan Tripp]

Hi everyone,

Just a reminder about the talk tomorrow.

Bryan


On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 1:05 PM, Bryan Tripp <bptripp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> 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!
>
> Bryan
>
>
> Somatosensory coding gone wrong: The origins of neuropathic pain
>
> 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.
>
>
>
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