Round-table meeting 2016

Welcome to the first CNAP round-table meeting, which will take place on Thursday 1 December 2016, at 13.00 - 15.00. 

This first round-table topic discussion will be on the “Gate-Control Theory” and we will focus on key papers in addition to relevant theoretical concepts and papers. For this meeting, the original and contemporary “Gate-Control Theory” will be presented, followed by presentations of selected papers given by engaged CNAP members (you).

Program

13.00
Welcome/short introduction to the CNAP round-table topic discussions by Thomas

Presentation of selected papers
- “Pain Mechanisms: A New Theory“ by Maria (5 min)
- “Gain Control Mechanisms in the Nociceptive System” by Rosa (10 min)
- Questions (5 min)

13.25
Pitch of all incoming papers (1 min for each paper/participant)
Why choosing this particular paper?

13.45
Presentation of selected papers (each presentation 10 + 5 min)
- “A Mathematical Model of the Gate Control Theory of Pain” by Eric
- “In Vino Interrogation of Spinal Mechanosensory Circuits” by Daniele
- “Pain relief by touch: A quantitative approach” by Steffen

14.30
Round-table discussion
 

Incoming papers:

1. Sensorimotor training and cortical reorganization
2. The Role of the Dorsal Root Ganglion in Cervical Radicular Pain: Diagnosis, Pathophysiology, and Rationale for Treatment
3. Brain electrical correlates of pain processing
4. Review of aetiological concepts of temporomandibular pain disorders: towards a biopsychosocial model for integration of physical disorder factors with psychological and psychosocial illness impact factors
5. Targeting Chronic Recurrent Low Back Pain From the Top-down and the Bottom-up: A Combined Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and Peripheral Electrical Stimulation Intervention
6. Analysis of hyperalgesia time courses in humans after painful electrical high-frequency stimulation identifies a possible transition from early to late LTP-like pain plasticity
7. A Mathematical Model of the Gate Control Theory of Pain (selected for presentation)
8. In Vivo Interrogation of Spinal Mechanosensory Circuits (selected for presentation)
9. A feed-forward spinal cord glycinergic neural circuit gates mechanical allodynia
10. A long noncoding RNA contributes to neuropathic pain by silencing Kcna2 in primary afferent neurons
11. Pain
12. Targeted Ablation, Silencing, and Activation Establish Glycinergic Dorsal Horn Neurons as Key Components of a Spinal Gate for Pain and Itch
13. Pain Facilitation and Activity-Dependent Plasticity in PainModulatory Circuitry: Role of BDNF-TrkB Signaling and NMDA Receptors
14. Excitatory and modulatory effects of inflammatory cytokines and neurotrophins on mechanosensitive group IV muscle afferents in the rat
15. Pain relief by touch: A quantitative approach (selected for presentation)
16. Diffuse noxious inhibitory controls (DNIC). II. Lack of effect on nonconvergent neurones, supraspinal involvement and...