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Vasco Galhardo. Neuroscientist, Pain Research. Director PhD Program Neuroscience, University Porto. Group Leader i3S. Era-Net NEURON Ambassador.
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✨ #FluorescenceFriday ✨ Check out this beautiful image of a stained spinal cord! Neurons (magenta) microglia (cyan), and nuclei(blue). 🧠🔬 #Neuroscience #ScienceArt #MicroscopyMagic #CellularBeauty #ResearchLife #painneuroscience

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Payne et al. find that menstrual pain severity, interference, and cumulative menstrual pain exposure were associated with functional connectivity of 3 key brain networks in adolescent girls with menstrual pain. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/40epspO

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Now in #PainReports: “Dopamine dynamics in chronic pain: music-induced, sex-dependent, behavioral effects in mice” by Flores-García et al. bit.ly/4hiDlus

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Qian Xu et al.’s in vivo calcium imaging study shows that spinal cord stimulation inhibited the activation of superficial neurokinin 1 receptor-positive neurons, unraveling a new mechanism for spinal cord stimulation-induced analgesia. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/40n0Viq

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Did you know that the #pain system works differently in men vs. women, at the cellular and molecular level? This is particularly true of #migraine pain. This new MSC editor's pick is an interesting animal study exploring these sex differences. #painresearch migrainecollaborative.org/papers/chron...

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In a new editorial from Editor-in-Chief of PAIN @karenddavis.bsky.social reaffirms the journal’s commitment to considering #diversity, #DEI, and #GenderIdentity in pain research and management. bit.ly/3D5WgJO 

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This week’s #PAIN Featured Image summarizes the promises and challenges of digital therapeutics (DTx) for behavioral chronic pain management. Learn more in Eccleston et al.’s new paper bit.ly/4hVK0uh

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check out this short journal club article and pain expectation by my grad student and @phivph.com www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2...

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If you could only read one article about chronic pain read this #painresearch www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/m...

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An important moment in our brain science work. We're closer to understanding aging and why so many brain diseases occur during advanced age – and what we can do to mitigate the impacts.

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Thrilled to share the most recent pub from the Griffith Lab! We show that sodium channels play unique roles in proprioceptive encoding. We also found some really cool effects on skeletal muscle, and a dev dependent role for Nav1.6 in proprioceptive spinal circuits www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Christopher Cover, Alexander J. Poplawsky, et al: Awake rodent fMRI: Gradient-echo echo planar imaging versus compressed-sensing fast low-angle shot direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

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"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Can colleagues amplify this appeal to journals and journal editors to open accounts on Bluesky, please? @MicrobioSoc @TrendsMicrobiol @CellCellPress @JBacteriology @jbiolchem @Nature @ScienceMagazine @PNASNews @MolMicroEditors @NAR_Open @NatureMicrobiol @NatureComms @ASMicrobiology 🙏 🦠🧪🧫🧬

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Happy to share our newest paper on PAIN journal. Following our recent papers on neuropathy-induced disruption of mPFC, hipp and NAcc, Helder Cardoso-Cruz (non bluesky) tackled the lateral habenula using optogenetics and electrophys. Cool pain-related effects... journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...

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Era-Net NEURON announced a new grant call on "Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Neueoscience of Pain". First selection phase will open on January '25 with a March deadline. Details will be announced soon... www.neuron-eranet.eu/joint-calls/...

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I am excited that my first Bluesky post is to share our new paper in @natureportfolio.bsky.social - "Understanding the neural code of stress to control anhedonia." With @fxia.bsky.social , @valeriafascianelli.bsky.social and @stefanofusi.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The Era-Net NEURON has produced a series of 4 short videos on #PainScience 🧠 ✨ Leading neuroscientists discuss the science of pain and the evolution of research in this field. #PainScience #Neuroscience #Research www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubGH...

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Tau filaments are packaged into extracellular vesicles derived from Alzheimer’s patient brains! Mounting evidence that EVs are important for tau transmission and pathology, as we show in our recent preprint. 🧠 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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