Nature Unknown label
Credit hour 3
Total number of hours 29
Number of hours for lectures 25
Number of hours for tutorials 4

Prerequisites

Pas de pré-requis

Goals

Knowing the physiology and physiopathology of pain and the principles of clinical pain management

Content

Our aim is to ‘understand pain’: how it comes (acute pain) and how it may become permanent in pathological conditions (chronic pain). This is a ‘translational’ teaching: from anatomy and physiology to clinical pain management, trough physiopathology.
Lectures
- Preclinical methods for the study of pain;
- Peripheral mechanisms of nociception;
- Processing of nociceptive information within the spinal and medullary dorsal horns;
- Plasticity of nociceptive circuits within the spinal and medullary dorsal horns;
- Neuroanatomy of pain pathways and mechanisms of pain modulation;
- Central neurochemistry et physiopathology of pain – Inhibitory systems;
- Peripheral neurochimistry et physiopathology of inflammatory and neuropathic pains (ionic channels);
- Preclinical and clinical evidence for the efficacy of antalgics. Mechanisms of action.

Tutorials
Critically reading publications

Additional Information

Knowing the physiology and physiopathology of pain and the principles of clinical pain management