Events

Jasvinder Singh, University of Alabama - 'Knee/Hip Joint Replacement outsomes: Do we understand what predicts the outcome?'

Monday 13th June, 3pm, Room 2.823/2.825 Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester

For more information and to register to this talk, please see https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kneehip-joint-replacement-outcomes-do-we-understand-what-predicts-the-outcome-prof-jasvider-singh-tickets-25644513430

 

Ben Seymour - 'The Pain System - Top down vs bottom up'

In April 2016, Ben Seymour came to Manchester to give a talk to staff at Salford Royal and University of Manchester. Ben is an outstanding young neuroscientist who is potentially interested in moving back to Manchester where he trained.   Please click here to see his talk.

 

Pain, The Brain and A Little Bit of Magic - Northwest Tour 2016

Following on from the success of last year's Pint of Science event (see below), The Human Pain Research Group have secured funding from The Wellcome Trust and are now due to perform at a series of venues in the North West of England.

Pain, The Brain and A Little Bit of Magic is a performance lecture which has been designed to tour to audiences of chronic pain patients, friends and families, medical professionals and as many of the general public as possible. Admission will be free and this will be a great opportunity to pass on really useful medical knowledge to support chronic pain sufferers.  The tour will begin early April 2016 and there will be a series of 7 shows over the following 10 weeks.

For more information, please see the following webpage: http://www.bbmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/ccn/pain/events/PainTheBrainandabitofMagic

Please see following link for press release: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/pain-the-brain-and-a-little-bit-of-magic-as-research-goes-from-lab-to-stage/

Professor Jones will also be appearing in 'Wanted' on 22nd and 23rd April 2016 at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Please see https://www.wyp.org.uk/events/transform16/ for further details.

 

Symposium on 'Advances in Osteoarthritis Pain Research' Rheumatology 2016, June 16th 2016, Alicante

 

Pint of Science Event 2015

The Pint of Science festival aims to deliver interesting, fun, relevant talks on the latest science research in an accessible format to the public – all in the pub! We want to provide a platform which allows people to discuss research with the people who carry it out. It is run by volunteers and was established by a community of postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers in 2012. The festival takes place annually over three days simultaneously in pubs across the world. Pint of Science is a non-profit organisation.

Professro Jones will be taking part in this years Pint of Science Event on Tues 19th May 2015 at The Old Monkey Pub in Manchester City Centre, 7pm - 10pm.  For further information please see http://pintofscience.co.uk/

 

Seminar: "Placebos: How do they work?"

Speakers and downloadable talks:

• Irving Kirsch – “Why Do We Respond To Placebos?” (Powerpoint, 974KB).
• Tor Wager – “Placebo Analgesia - What Have We Learnt From Functional Imaging?” (Powerpoint, 20.6MB).
• Alison Watson – “Placebo analgesia: Implications for Clinical Trials Design”
• Debbie Morton – “The reproducibility of placebo analgesia : a behavioural and EEG study” (Powerpoint, 600KB).
• Wael El-Deredy – “Bayesian Models of Placebo”

IASP 12th World Congress on Pain, August 2008

Poster Presentations:

• Brown CA, Seymour B, Boyle Y, El-Deredy W, Jones AKP. Confidence in beliefs about pain predicts anticipatory influences on pain perception (powerpoint, 2.5MB).

Mind and Life Summer Research Institute, June 2008

Poster Presentation:

• Brown CA, Jones AKP. The effects of meditation on attention to pain and attention-related pain processing (powerpoint, 2.1MB).

IASP 11th World Congress on Pain, August 2005

Poster Presentations:

• Bentley DE, Baumgärtner U, Watson A, Barrett G, Kulkarni K, Youell PD, Jones AKP, Treede R-D. Early involvement of right operculo-insular cortex in processing pain unpleasantness: evidence from laser evoked potentials (powerpoint, 951kB).
• Boyle Y, Bentley D, Watson A, Jones AKP. Modulation of pain affect, spatial discrimination, and laser-evoked potentials by distraction (powerpoint, 1766kB).
• Brown CA, Boyle Y, Watson A, Bentley D, Jones AKP. The expectancy of pain: modulation by intensity and uncertainty (powerpoint, 523kB).
• El-Deredy W, Boyle Y, Bentley D, Jones AKP. Modulation of laser-evoked potential frequency response to pain localisation, affect and distraction (powerpoint, 1490kB).
• Trujillo-Barreto NJ, Boyle Y, El-Deredy W, Bentley D, Jones AKP. Modulation of medial and lateral pain systems by noise distraction (powerpoint, 1175kB).
• Kulkarni B, Bentley D, Elliott R, Julyan P, Boger E, Watson A, El-Deredy W, Jones AKP. Comparison of the brain areas involved in processing chronic arthritic versus acute experimental pain using PFG PET (powerpoint, 717kB).
• Kulkarni B, Boger E, Watson A, Elliott R, Bentley D, Derbyshire SWG, Frackowiak R, Nadeau V, Boyle Y, Jones AKP. Cortical processing of attentional dysfunction in fibromyalgia (powerpoint, 650kB).
• Watson A, El-Deredy W, Bentley D, Boyle Y, Vogt BA, Jones AKP. Placebo-induced reductions in pain ratings & laser-evoked potentials (powerpoint, 663kB).