| May 2011 |
Article in The Independent newspaper: "It's time for your meditation "
Our research in the effects on meditation on pain has been publised. |
| January 2010 |
Press Release: "Meditation reduces the emotional impact of pain "
Research from our group has shown that "mindfulness meditation" can dull the experience of pain. |
| January 2010 |
Ph.D. awarded
Congratulations to Dr Debbie Morton for being awarded a Ph.D. degree for her work within the Human Pain Research Group. |
| November 2008 |
Seminar: "Placebos: How do they work?"
The Neuroscience Research Institute hosted a seminar on mechanisms of the placebo effect, with keynote speakers Irving Kirsch and Tor Wager. Follow the above link for further details and slide presentations. |
| August 2008 |
BBC radio 4 Interview
Prof Anthony Jones is interviewed for a radio programme on pain control. |
| August 2008 |
Article published in Manchester Evening News: "Is Pain all in the Brain?"
Prof Anthony Jones is interviewed for an article on the role of the brain in the experience of pain. |
| June 2008 |
New research grant awarded
Prof Anthony Jones and Dr Wael El-Deredy have teamed up with Prof Karl Herlholtz and Dr Peter Talbot from the Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre (WMIC) to win a research grant of £757,887 from the Medical Research Council. They will be researching
how psychological and physiological factors influence the release of the brain's own pain-killing chemicals in patients with chronic pain. |
| June 2008 |
New research grant awarded
Prof Anthony Jones has been awarded £317,705 from the Arthritis Research Campaign to research
top-down modulation of pain in patients with chronic pain over the next three years. |
| April 2008 |
Ph.D. awarded
Congratulations to Dr Alison Watson for being awarded a Ph.D. degree for her work within the Human Pain Research Group. |
| February 2008 |
Ph.D. awarded
Congratulations to Dr Christopher Brown for being awarded a Ph.D. degree for his work within the Human Pain Research Group. |
| January 2008 |
New research grant awarded
Prof Anthony Jones has been awarded £119,271 from the Dr Hadwen Trust to research
endogenous pain control mechanisms in patients with chronic pain over the next two years. The Trust aims to reduce the amount of animal research required in order to understand and treat human disease. |
| October 2007 |
New research grant awarded
In collaboration with Dr Hugh McCann at the University of Manchester, Prof Anthony Jones has been awarded £11,000 from the Manchester
CIMIT Small Grants Award Scheme to test whether a new brain imaging technology (Electrical Impedance Tomography, EIT) may be useful for understanding how the brain processes the experience of pain. |
| March 2007 |
Press release: Arthritis pain processed in brain's 'fear zone', first PET scans reveal
Researchers in The Human Pain Research Group have discovered that arthritis pain, unlike that induced as part of an experiment, is processed in the parts of the brain concerned with emotions and fear.
Please click on the title above for this press release. |
| January 2007 |
Student awarded research grant
Christopher Brown has been awarded a Varela grant by the Mind and Life Institute to research neurophysiological mechanisms of a mindfulness-based treatment for chronic pain. |
| January 2007 |
Ph.D.s awarded
Congratulations to Dr Bhavna Kulkarni and Dr Yvonne Boyle for being awarded Ph.D. degrees for their work with the Human Pain Research Group. |
| September 2006 |
Pain in Europe V: 5th Congress of EFIC
Prof Anthony Jones will be providing a workshop at the European Federation of IASP Chapters (EFIC) this year in Istanbul. Yvonne Boyle will also be presenting 2 posters. |
| March 2006 |
Student awarded grant
Yvonne Boyle is awarded a Wellcome Trust Value in People grant. |
| February 2006 |
Student nominated for University award
Yvonne Boyle is nominated for student of the year award by the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences. In recognition of her high calibre work, the Faculty has awarded her with £50 in book tokens. |
| January 2006 |
Student takes on new role
Yvonne Boyle begins her new role as treasurer and membership secretary for the British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience (BACN). |
| August 2005 |
IASP 11th World Congress on Pain
We will be represented at this year's international pain conference in Sydney by Dr. Anthony Jones, who will be providing a refresher course on the role of the cerebral cortex in pain perception, and PhD students Yvonne Boyle and Christopher Brown who will be presenting their research findings. In total, 9 research posters from a number of our group members will be presented. Chris and Yvonne have both received travel bursaries from the IASP organisers to attend this years conference. |
| 15th September 2004 |
Student wins poster prize
PhD student Christopher Brown won the poster prize at the British Psychophysiology Society (BPPS) conference in Manchester, for his poster entitled 'The expectancy of pain in Fibromyalgia, Osteoarthritis and healthy volunteers: preliminary results'. |
| 13th -15th September 2004 |
32nd Annual Conference of the British Psychophysiology Society (BPPS)
Deborah Bentley, Yvonne Boyle and Alison Watson organised the BPPS Annual Conference, which was held in Manchester this year. |
| 3rd September 2004 |
Student wins poster prize
PhD student Alison Watson won a prize for her poster entitled 'Placebo induced reduction of pain intensity and unpleasantness ratings of a laser stimulus' at the Touch, Temperature, Pain and Pleasure Conference held at The University of Manchester. |
| 2nd - 3rd September 2004 |
Touch, Temperature, Pain and Pleasure Conference
In collaboration with Unilever, our research group ran a conference on the subject of Touch, Temperature, Pain and Pleasure. This conference was held at The University of Manchester and attracted speakers from around the world. |
| 4th June 2004 |
Article in Manchester Evening News
The Manchester Evening News published an article covering our research, entitled 'Pill to break pain barrier'. |
| 3rd June 2004 |
Human Pain Research Group Showcase
Our research group held a day of presentations on our work, for faculty members, funding bodies and patients. |
