{"id":53834,"date":"2019-02-20T13:06:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T18:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=53834"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:38","slug":"science-cafe-chronic-pain-uncovering-a-path-towards-better-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2019\/science-cafe-chronic-pain-uncovering-a-path-towards-better-treatments\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Caf\u00e9 \u2013 Chronic Pain: Uncovering a Path Towards Better Treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Science Caf\u00e9 \u2013 Chronic Pain: Uncovering a Path Towards Better Treatments\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

As part of 杏吧原创 University\u2019s Science Caf\u00e9 series, Michael Hildebrand of the Department of Neuroscience<\/a> will present Chronic Pain: Uncovering a Path Towards Better Treatments<\/a><\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When<\/strong>: Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019 from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
\nWhere<\/strong>: Sunnyside Branch of the Ottawa Public Library, 1049 Bank Street, Ottawa
\nInfo<\/strong>: This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media are invited to attend the event.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our inability to effectively and safely treat chronic pain is a major public health challenge. One in five Canadians experiences chronic pain, imposing huge personal and societal costs. The failure to develop new treatments may be partly due to the large divide between studies in animal pain models and the jump to testing specific therapeutics on humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this presentation, Hildebrand will discuss \u201cgood\u201d versus \u201cbad\u201d pain, how pain medicines work and the need to develop future therapeutics to block the \u201cbad\u201d forms of chronic pain. He will discuss his lab\u2019s ongoing research into how dysfunctional signalling in the spinal cord drives chronic pain in both animal and human tissue models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A unique collaboration with Ottawa Hospital neurosurgeon Eve Tsai is testing which pathological pain mechanisms are conserved across species \u2013 potentially shedding light on new therapeutic approaches to treat pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

杏吧原创 Science Caf\u00e9<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Science Caf\u00e9 series is organized by the Faculty of Science<\/a> at 杏吧原创 to discuss relevant issues facing our society and how science can help solve real-world problems. Meet some of 杏吧原创\u2019s award-winning faculty members and graduate students as they share their excitement about science with the community. For more information, visit:  Science.carleton.ca\/science-cafe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n杏吧原创 University
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\nSteven_Reid3@杏吧原创.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As part of 杏吧原创 University\u2019s Science Caf\u00e9 series, Michael Hildebrand of the Department of Neuroscience will present Chronic Pain: Uncovering a Path Towards Better Treatments. When: Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019 from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Where: Sunnyside Branch of the Ottawa Public Library, 1049 Bank Street, Ottawa Info: This event is free and open […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":50036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[104,111],"class_list":["post-53834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-advisories","tag-science","tag-neuroscience"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53842,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53834\/revisions\/53842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}