McGill-led projects awarded Brain Canada grants

Published: 12 September 2014

Four innovative projects led by McGill University researchers have been selected to receive major grants under the Canada Brain Research Fund.

His and her pain circuitry in the spinal cord

Published: 29 June 2015

New research released today in Nature Neuroscience reveals for the first time that pain is processed in male and female mice using different cells. These findings have far-reaching implications for...

Equality need not be painful

Published: 13 July 2016

Pain researchers' arguments for using only male rodents in preclinical pain research don't hold up to scrutiny, says McGill neuroscientist Jeffrey Mogil. Nature

Pain curbs sex drive in female mice, but not in males

Published: 22 April 2014

“Not tonight, dear, I have a headache.” Generally speaking, that line is attributed to the wife in a couple, implying that women’s sexual desire is more affected by pain than men’s.

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