Research
Pain research at McGill is amongst the best in the world, based on a large critical mass of exceptional pain researchers, and on a tradition of outstanding accomplishments in the neurosciences. The legacy of Ron Melzack’s proposal of the gate-control theory of pain in 1965 continues with McGill pain studies appearing in the world’s most influential journals.
Knowledge translation goals
Our research will: (1) help in understanding the physiological basis of a number of unexplained chronic pain conditions, (2) provide new therapies for chronic and acute pain conditions, (3) provide novel animal models for pain conditions such as neuropathic pain, migraine, complex regional pain syndrome, functional abdominal pain, interstitial cystitis, back pain, fibromyalgia and vulvodynia, (4) help explain the influence of genetic, environmental and dietary factors in the development of chronic pain, and (5) understand the influence of psychological factors on pain.
Researchers
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Dr. Luda Diatchenko
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Dr. Mervyn Gornitsky
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Dr. Richard Hovey
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Dr. Arkady Khoutorsky
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Dr. Marc-Olivier Martel
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Dr. Carol Meloto
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Dr. Étienne Vachon-Presseau
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Dr. Ana Velly, Associate Professor,
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Dr. Ji Zhang
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