Tinnitus severity linked to mood, sleep and personality traits

Published: 20 August 2025

How severely a person experiences tinnitus is shaped by their mood, sleep quality and even personality traits, a new study has found....

Study helps explain why chronic pain is often discounted

Published: 15 July 2025

A new study by McGill University researchers shows that chronic pain, often invisible to medical tests, can be better assessed when doctors take a holistic approach....

Physiology Seminar in collaboration with the Pain Centre: Dr. William Renthal:" Cell types and states of headache and pain"

Friday, September 8, 2023 11:00to12:00

The trigeminal and dorsal root ganglia transduce sensory information from the environment to the central nervous system.3655 promenade Sir William Osler, Montreal, QC, H3G 1Y6, CA...

Seminar - The role of the voltage gated sodium channel Nav1.7 in human pain and pleasure

Friday, January 24, 2020 11:00to12:00

There has been significant progress over the last decade in understanding the molecular basis by which sensory neurons transduce and subsequently transmit noxious (ie. tissue damaging) stimuli...

Dr. Robert Gereau - seminar cancelled

Friday, March 13, 2020 11:00to12:00

This seminar has been cancelled....

50th anniversary of "Pain Mechanisms: A New Theory"

Published: 17 November 2015

November 19 marks the 50th anniversary of the ground-breaking paper, “Pain Mechanisms: A New Theory” co-authored by McGill’s Ronald Melzack, and the late Patrick Wall, which introduced gate-control...

Dr. Mark Ware, vice-chair of task force on cannabis

Published: 30 June 2016

World-renowned pain specialist and medical cannabis researcher Dr. Mark Ware, director of clinical research at the Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC),...

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