Editor’s note: Welcome to the seventh episode of The Pain Beat! Supported by a generous grant from The MAYDAY Fund, The Pain Beat brings together the world’s leading pain investigators in order to spark dialogue and debate around important ideas in pain research. Guided by Rebecca Seal, scientific director of The Pain Beat, these podcasts feature open and spirited discussion about the hottest topics in pain and how the field moves forward from here.
For its seventh episode, The Pain Beat gathered together an international group of pain researchers to discuss brain imaging of pain in humans. The podcast focuses on how studies of expectation and the placebo effect have advanced our understanding in this area. What we’ve learned so far, whether pain brain imaging can be used as a diagnostic tool, and future prospects for neuroimaging are all addressed in this lively discussion.
Podcast participants are:
- Christian Büchel, MD, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
- Irene Tracey, DPhil, University of Oxford, UK
- Tor Wager, PhD, Dartmouth College, Hanover, US
- Howard Fields, MD, PhD, University of California San Francisco, US (moderator)
Take a listen below and consider leaving a comment on the podcast at the bottom of this page. (All the Pain Beat podcasts are also available on Apple Podcasts here, and on Spotify here).
Podcast participants
PRF thanks Gary Hobish for providing the audio mastering for this podcast, and Kevin Seal for creating the music.
The Pain Beat is supported by a generous grant from The MAYDAY Fund.