@benalter.bsky.social
Pain Medicine physician-scientist at University of Pittsburgh; translational neuroscience of acute and chronic pain
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Thanks to #NIH and collaborators.
#PainResearch #Osteoarthritis #ALTERNEUROLAB
Big news from the lab! 🧠🦵
Honored to receive an NIH HEAL Initiative R01 to investigate whole-person mechanisms in knee osteoarthritis. This work aims to bridge pain science, aging, and systems biology to improve outcomes for millions.
Ben Alter, Rebecca Seal, and Sylvia Lin interacting during Pain Day 2025.
Poster presentations in the Connolly Ballroom at Alumni Hall during Pain Day 2025.
Audience members at Pain Day 2025 during the Q&A session.
Dr. David Julius delivering the Keynote Lecture at Pain Day 2025.
🔬💡 Over 200 researchers came together for the inaugural Pain Day at the University of Pittsburgh - a celebration of cutting-edge research, innovation, and collaboration across Pittsburgh: www.anesthesiology.pitt.edu/news/inaugur...
19.05.2025 22:31 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Graphic featuring a photo of Dr. Keith Vogt and the logos of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine and the NCCIH.
Exciting news! 🎉 Our department has received a grant from NCCIH to study how auriculotherapy can relieve chronic low back pain. Led by Dr. Keith Vogt, this cutting-edge research could pave the way for safer, non-opioid pain treatments for pain patients: www.anesthesiology.pitt.edu/news/departm...
01.05.2025 16:57 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Thanks @hstratton.bsky.social for posting about it and being a part of our amazing group of researchers at Pitt tackling the problem of pain.
09.05.2025 01:51 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
link to paper: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
06.05.2025 17:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I was excited to hear about a new behavioral treatment for chronic pain developed by researchers in Australia -- dialectical behavior therapy adapted to chronic pain. Thanks to @sutherlandphd.bsky.social for covering this development.
06.05.2025 17:45 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
It is accomplished www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/h...
30.01.2025 23:29 — 👍 41 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1The Society for Neuroscience calls for lifting the freeze on federal grants
www.sfn.org/publications...
All Democrats in Congress and the Senate will fight this—it’s illegal. But Republican lawmakers NEED to hear from their constituents! Priority order: call, then email. Be clear about how this will hurt education, the economy, and health! 🧪
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
Just finished my weekly Monday clinic and I want everyone to know that I literally have the nicest patients ever.
Pain Medicine is an underrated specialty- highly recommend 😊
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
22.01.2025 20:46 — 👍 12322 🔁 5011 💬 590 📌 1174Translational pain neuroscience focusing on central mechanisms of musculoskeletal pain. #brain #fNIRS #QST #clinicaltrials
07.12.2024 12:24 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
A picture of the earth showing the pacific ocean. You can see hawaii and New Zealand. Also the edge of antarctica, australia, and north and south america...but barely.
It’s interesting that the emojis show the earth from three angles 🌎 🌍 🌏 but not the fourth.
Though 🔵 is a fair approximation of what it would look like.
People underestimate the Pacific.
We are hiring ! We are recruiting a scientist that is interested in studying the brain mechanisms supporting cannabis-based analgesia. Reach out for more details and please share
07.12.2024 04:14 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1Talk about living your #science! When devotion to #research leaves a permanent mark—definitely filing this under: ‘Do what you love, love what you do!' 💪💚
23.11.2024 18:55 — 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Me me me! 😁
(Pain Medicine doc + translational neuroscience... UCSF alum, currently at UPitt)
