ANZCA ASM: Neuroscience, neuroimaging and practice in pain medicine

Podcast: TopMedTalk · TopMedTalk

Opublikowano: 2026-09-14

Recorded at ANZCA and the Faculty of Pain Medicine's Annual Scientific Meeting in Auckland, TopMedTalk hosts Andy Cumstey and Kate Leslie interview visiting pain research leaders, Professor Irene Tracey, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Professor Lesley Colvin, the Chair of Pain Medicine at the University of Dundee and an Honorary Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine at NHS Tayside. They discuss how thinking has shifted from chronic pain as a simple transition from acute pain, to a distinct disease with separate mechanisms and early "pre-vulnerability" factors including stress-axis disruption and reduced endogenous inhibition. Colvin...