Tony Pickering

Sharing Daily Moments of Chronic Pain Over the summer we ran an activity where we asked those living with chronic or persistent pain to take part in a unique creative opportunity to share a moment from their day. We had a diverse …

Through art, text, and photography, our competition revealed how persistent pain shapes daily life. Congratulations to the winners — and thank you to all who helped turn lived experience into insight. Read more: criisp.uk/2025/10/23/s...
#ChronicPainResearch #PublicInvolvement

Congratulations to @mike-ambler.bsky.social promoted to a position of responsibility 👏🫡 🫣

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Jeremiah Cohen standing in front of a giant green neuron.

THIS IS ONE NEURON! Jaw dropping.

It distributes a particular neurotransmitter (norepinephrine) across the mouse brain; it’s a locus coeruleus neuron.

@jeremiahycohen.bsky.social and colleagues at the @alleninstitute.bsky.social are using new biotech to see things never seen before.

Are you living with long COVID? We are recruiting for a study which aims to understand the mechanisms underlying breathing difficulties in long COVID. Read about it here: longcovid.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Or here:
www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/research/res...

@bristolbrc.bsky.social @uobppn.bsky.social

How the brain's little blue dot regulates your sleep The locus coeruleus is emerging as a major new area of research interest, with many important functions such as regulating our attention and sleep.

bbc.com/future/artic...

Check out the amazing line up of speakers for the Catecholamines GRC! Apply for GRC www.grc.org/catecholamin... & GRS www.grc.org/catecholamin.... In these uncertain times we appreciate any donation to support the participants in the GRC my.grc.org/p/contributi... & GRS my.grc.org/p/contributi...

Synthetic torpor in the rat recapitulates key features of natural torpor and is cardioprotective During hibernation, animals enter torpor, a reversible physiological state typically characterised by reductions in core temperature, heart rate and oxygen consumption. Species that enter this hypothe...

Very excited to post this preprint... making a species that doesn't hibernate do something a lot like it, AND showing it is cardioprotective.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Carriers of SCN9A variants linked to inherited and acquired pain syndromes show no alteration in the prevalence of pain or analgesic usage in the UK Biobank cohort The voltage-gated sodium channel NaV1.7, encoded by the SCN9A gene, is integral to nociceptor excitability and pain sensation. Multiple gain-of-function SCN9A variants have been reported to cause auto...

When is a "pathogenic" variant in a classic pain gene (NaV1.7) not pathogenic? When its carried by many thousands of people and has no evidence of a pain phenotype or analgesic prescriptions... We need to reconsider how we assign pathogenicity to these variants.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

THE BOY FROM BLYTH!!!!

SIMPLY INCREDIBLE!!!! 😍

Reviving-like prosocial behavior in response to unconscious or dead conspecifics in rodents Whereas humans exhibit emergency responses to assist unconscious individuals, how nonhuman animals react to unresponsive conspecifics is less well understood. We report that mice exhibit stereotypic b...

Mice manage airways in anaesthetised cage mates... maybe there is a genetic basis for becoming an anaesthetist. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

a man in a suit and tie is holding a pen and hammer . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a pen and hammer .

Do you have a basic science background and are interested in doing a PhD at Oxford University? Fully funded UK studentship available for 2025 intake to study the role of B-cells in human neuropathic pain

To apply please see here:
www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/study-with-u...

We offer two PhD positions in Pain Neuroscience and Non-invasive neuromodulation. The positions are at the PainLabMunich (painlabmunich.de) and will be part of the EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network FRESCO4NoPain. See www.cnap.hst.aau.dk/fresco4nopai... for details.

Excited to be part of the FRESCO4NoPain consortium - 17 PhD places available across European centres. Translational Neuromodulation for pain - apply here if this is your bag www.cnap.hst.aau.dk/fresco4nopai...

Interesting new option in acute pain management… wonder when it’ll come to the UK?

Vertex: New non-opioid painkiller Journavx approved by US FDA - BBC News New drug suzetrigine, known by its brand name Journavx, has been approved to treat moderate to severe pain.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy 84th birthday to Anthony Fauci

Postbox with Christmas yarn bomb and festive mice

Possibly the best thing about the post office this year… thanks to She Runs Cardiff

a light pink cloud of ink that loosely resembles the shape of a brain

Our publishing model, launched last year, lets authors revise their papers whenever and however they choose.

Here's the first-ever revision to be published on how the locus coeruleus is involved in visuomotor learning processes. #12DaysOfeLife
https://buff.ly/3ZlX58u

Great Wave of neurons

Happy to be joining the wave of Neuroscience flocking here and bringing some locus coeruleus #bluespot interest to Bluesky