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Milano Convention Centre | August 27-31, 2012

Topical Workshops

The 14th World Congress on Pain will feature a series of concurrent 90-minute Topical Workshops, providing delegates with great opportunities for floor discussion and learning from leaders in the pain study field. Most sessions will include viewpoints from at least three speakers. The specific dates, times and abstracts for each Topical Workshop will be available in early 2012.

Titles and topics are subject to change.

  • Advances in Theory and Interventions in Pediatric Pain
  • An Update on Pain Mechanisms in the Orofacial Region and Potential Therapeutic Implications
  • Are Epigenetic Mechanisms Good Targets for the Control of Pain States?
  • Assessing the Chronic Pain Patient: The Role of Credibility
  • Cancer Pain: Moving from Practice to Evidence
  • Chronic Headache – Chronic Pain: What's Common? What's Different?
  • Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approaches to Pain Management in Older Adult Populations
  • Combination Pharmacotherapy for Chronic Pain
  • Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and Autonomic Disturbances
  • Current and Future Approaches to Control Pain through the Endocannabinoid System
  • Cytokines and Neuropathic Pain: Translating from Basic Discoveries to Therapeutic Approaches
  • Developing Countries Project – ACED Initiative for Improving Pain Education: Sharing Experiences and Outcomes
  • Different Approaches to Regulatory Control and Surveillance of Opioid Prescribing
  • Dissecting Interneuron Diversity in the Spinal Dorsal Horn Using Transgenic Mice
  • Distraction-Induced Analgesia: What is Hindering, What Improving?
  • Endogenous Brain Mechanisms Involved in the Modulation of Headaches: Similarities and Discrepancies between Studies in Animals and Humans
  • Endogenous Regulation and Activation of Transient Receptor Potential Channels in Pain
  • Episodic Pain Memory: Linking the Present with the Past
  • Evaluation of Spontaneous Pain and Evoked Hypersensitivity: Closing the Gap between Preclinical and Clinical Studies
  • Facilitating Return to Work in People with Pain: Challenges for Clinicians, the Workplace and Researchers
  • Fibromyalgia: Update on the Relative Contribution of Peripheral vs. Central Mechanisms
  • From Acute to Chronic Pain; Risk Factors, Genetics and Possible Preventive Strategies
  • From Localized Musculoskeletal Pain to Generalized Central Sensitization: Basic, Experimental and Clinical Evidence
  • Functional Implications of Musculoskeletal Pain – Mechanisms and Rehabilitation
  • Hurting and Healing: Mental Imagery in Pain
  • Inhibiting the NGF/TrkA Pain Pathway – Lessons Learned and Current Status
  • Interactions between Pain and Itch
  • Inter-Relating Factors in the Development of Chronic Pain Following Whiplash Injury
  • Is Pain More than Just Salience Detection?
  • Limits of Endogenous Analgesia in Patients with Chronic Pain: Assessment and Consequences
  • Mechanisms of Migraine
  • Modulating Pain Perception and Behavior: The Role of Reward, Respondent and Operant Learning
  • Neuroimmunopharmacology of Opioids: TLRS and Chemokines and Sphingolipids, Oh My!
  • Neuronal Plasticity: Implications for Understanding and Treating Chronic Pain
  • Neurophysiological Correlates of Evoked and Ongoing Pain: Objective Markers to Evaluate the Nociceptive System in Humans
  • Neurophysiological Correlates of Meditation and Hypnosis for Pain Treatment: Research and Clinical Implications
  • New Aspects in Peripheral and Central Mechanisms of Painful Bladder Syndrome/Interstitial Cystitis
  • New Directions of Ion Channel Research in Pain Pathways
  • Noninvasive Brain Stimulation for the Treatment of Pain
  • Not Just Description: New Horizons in Pain Epidemiology
  • Novel Preclinical Genetics of Pain Findings Showing Translation to Humans
  • Novel Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Lipid Mediators for Pain Control
  • Opioids for Acute Pain in Children: Efficacy and Safety
  • Osteoarthritis Pain: Novel Insights in Pathways and Mechanisms through Clinical Studies, Genetic Analysis, and Mouse Models
  • Pain in Fabry Disease: A Model of Treatable Neuropathic Pain (Not Only) in Childhood
  • Pain in Persons with Disabilities: Recent Findings and their Clinical Implications
  • Pain in the Proximal Gut
  • Painful HIV-Associated Sensory Neuropathy: Recent Advances in Animal Modeling, Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Genetics
  • Pains Associated with Infections Common in Developing Countries
  • Pains, Fears, and Passions: Chronic Pain and Fronto-Limbic Interactions
  • Perceived Injustice, Entitlement and Blame: Risk Factors for Problematic Pain Outcomes
  • Placebo Analgesia and Nocebo Hyperalgesia: From Bench to Bed
  • Proteases and Pain Transmission
  • Protein Kinase M-ζ (PKMζ) Involvement in the Maintenance of Pain Plasticity
  • Overcoming Preclinical and Clinical Barriers for Discovery of Pain Therapeutics
  • Spinal Cord Stimulation: Mechanisms of a Widely Used Therapy beyond the Gate Control Concept
  • The Dichotomy of Exercise-induced Pain and Analgesia in Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: Implications for Pain Management
  • The Difficulties in Pain Management for Frail Older or Demented Persons
  • The Influence of Glycine in Normal and Pathological Touch and Pain Processing
  • The Interplay of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Stress and Pain in the Wake of Trauma
  • The Multivariate Representation of Pain – New Approaches to a Complex Brain Network
  • The Pain-Out International Acute Pain Registry: Emerging Benefits and Future Challenges
  • The Representation of the Body and the Space Around it in People in Pain – Recent Developments and Clinical Implications
  • The Role of Psychosocial Factors as Mediators and Moderators in Musculoskeletal Research: Lessons for Secondary Prevention
  • The Role of Satellite Glial Cells in Chronic Pain
  • Trigeminal Neuralgia: Recent Advances in Diagnosis and Therapeutic Options
  • Understanding Pain within its Social Context
  • Weighting the Value of Pain: Motivational and Informational Influences on Pain Responding
  • Why Skin Matters: New Insights from Bench to Bedside