Editor’s note: This podcast features Megan Detloff, PhD, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy and the Marion Murray Spinal Cord Research Center at Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, US. Detloff studies how rehabilitative exercise affects the molecular underpinnings that contribute to chronic pain development after spinal cord injury, among other interests (see full bio below).
In this podcast, Detloff speaks with PRF Correspondent Courtney Bannerman, a PhD student at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, to discuss the nature of spinal cord injury, the consequent development of chronic pain and how she studies this in animals, the effects of exercise on spinal cord injury pain, and much more.
Listen to the podcast below. The podcast is also available on Spotify here and on Apple Podcasts here.
About Dr. Detloff
Dr. Megan Detloff received her BS in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan and her PhD in neuroscience from Ohio State University in the lab of Dr. Michele Basso. She came to Drexel University College of Medicine for a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. John Houlé and is currently assistant professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy and the Marion Murray Spinal Cord Research Center. Her research focuses on understanding how rehabilitative exercise can modulate the molecular underpinnings that contribute to chronic pain development after spinal cord injury. In particular, her work focuses on the effects of injury and exercise on reducing both inflammation as well as aberrant plasticity of primary nociceptive neurons that reside in the dorsal root ganglia.
PRF Correspondent Courtney Bannerman is a PhD student at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada.