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The 15th World Congress on Discomfort will feature numerous concurrent 90-minute Topical Workshops, offering delegates with great choices for floor discussion and gaining understanding from leaders within the discomfort study field. Sessions includes viewpoints from no under three loudspeakers and moderated getting a 4th person sometimes.

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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Morning Workshops, 10:45 &#8211 12:15

Cholinergic Analgesia: Central, Peripheral and/or Non-Neuronal Effect?
Lori Birder, PhD, College of Pittsburgh (USA)
Matilde Cordero-Erausquin, PhD, Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neurosciences (France)
Pamela Ton, MD, Stanford College (USA)

Computational Modeling in Discomfort Research: Helpful otherwise?
Masaki Maruyama, PhD, Osaka College (Japan)
Abby Tabor, PhD student, College of South Australia (Australia)
Katja Wiech, PhD, College of Bath (Uk)

Estimating Another’s Discomfort: Can We Realize It Properly?
Christine Chambers, PhD, Dalhousie College (Canada)
Judith Kappesser, PhD, Giessen College (Germany)
Amanda Manley, PhD, College College (Uk)

Improving Outcomes in charge over Co-Occurring Chronic Discomfort and Opioid Use Disorder
Robert Jamison, PhD, Harvard Mediterranean School (USA)
Nicholas Lintzeris, PhD, College of Sydney (Australia)
Seddon Savage, MD, Dartmouth College (USA)

Incidence and Predictors of Chronic Publish-Surgical Discomfort after Different Surgery: An Worldwide Perspective
Edwards, PhD, Harvard Mediterranean School (USA)
Eija Kalso, MD, DMedSci, College of Helsinki (Finland)
Patricia Pinto, PhD, Minho College (Portugal)
Elizabeth Van Family area Kerkhof, DrPH, Queen’s College (Canada)

Innate and Adaptive Immune Mechanisms in Neuropathic Discomfort
Thiago Cunha, Professor, College of Sao Paulo-FMRP (Latin america)
Patrick Dougherty, PhD, The College of Texas (USA)
Gila Moalem-Taylor, PhD, College of Nsw (Australia)

Innovative Strategies to Discomfort Education
Backed using the Discomfort Education Special Interest Group
Emma Briggs, BSc, PhD, RN, PGCAP, King’s College London (Uk)
Eloise Carr, PhD, College of Calgary (Canada)
Andreas Kopf, MD, Charit&#233 College Mediterranean school (Germany)
Jesse Murinson, MS, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins College Mediterranean school (USA)

Neural Network Dynamics: Attention and Individual Variability of Acute and Chronic Discomfort-Related Brain Activity
Marwan Baliki, PhD, Northwestern College (USA)
Karen Davis, PhD, Toronto Western Research Institute (Canada)
Stuart Derbyshire, PhD, National College of Singapore (Singapore)
Aaron Kucyi, PhD student, College of Toronto (Canada)

Sensorimotor Neuroplasticity and Discomfort: Effects, Mechanisms and Novel Treatments
Paul Hodges, PhD, MedDr, DSc, BPhty, The College of Queensland (Australia)
Siobhan Schabrun, PHD, College of Western Sydney (Australia)
Craig Sessle, PhD, College of Toronto (Canada)

Mid-day Workshops, 16:30 &#8211 18:00

Acute Discomfort in Hospitalized Children: So What Can Everybody Knows are you going to We Modify Came From Here?
Backed using the Acute Discomfort Special Interest Group
Emma Briggs, PhD, King’s College London (Uk)
Bonnie Stevens, PhD, Hospital for Sick Children (Canada)

Alison Twycross, PhD, London South Bank College (Uk)

Functional Plasticity within the CNS: Extended Term Outcomes of Early Injuries
Mark Baccei, PhD, College of Cincinnati (USA)
Simon Beggs, PhD, Hospital for Sick Children (Canada)
Suellen Master, MD, PhD, College College London (Uk)

Generalization Processes in Chronic Discomfort: An Associative Learning Approach
Ann Meulders, PhD, College of Leuven (Belgium)
Lorimer Moseley, PhD, College of South Australia (Australia)
Katja Wiech, PhD, College of Bath (Uk)

The easiest method to Erase Memory Traces of Discomfort and Fear
Ruth Drdla-Schutting, PhD, Medical College of Vienna (Austria)
J&#252rgen Sandk&#252hler, MD, PhD, Medical College of Vienna (Austria)
Johan Vlaeyen, PhD, College of Leuven (Belgium)
Carsten Wotjak, PhD, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry (Germany)

New Mechanisms of Latent Discomfort Sensitization
Jon Levine, MD,PhD, College of California (USA)
Margarita Puig, MD, PhD, Autonomous College of Barcelona (The country)
Kaira Taylor, PhD, College of Kentucky (USA)

Reconsidering Discomfort Assessment within the Non-verbal Patient: Neurophysiology, Neuroanatomy, Discomfort Indicators, and Clinical Decision-Making
C&#233line G&#233linas, RN, PhD, McGill College (Canada)
Anne-Sylvie Ramelet, PhD, Lausanne College (Europe)
Caroline Arbour, RN, PhD, H&#244pital du Sacr&#233-Coeur de Montr&#233al (Canada)

Small Fiber Neuropathy Discomfort: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges
Troels Jensen, MD, DMSc, Aarhus College Hospital (Denmark)
Michael Polydefkis, MD, MHS, Johns Hopkins Bayview Clinic (USA)
Claudia Sommer, MD, DMSc, College of W&#252rzburg (Germany)

The potency of Vision: Novel Insights towards the Role of Visual Feedback, Spatial Attention, and Multisensory Illusions in Discomfort
Martin Diers, PhD, Central Institute of Mental Health (Germany)
Tasha Stanton, PhD, The College of South Australia (Australia)
Diana Torta, PhD, Universit&#233 Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)

The Spectrum of Back Discomfort: From Cells to Healthcare Systems
Steven George, PT, PhD, College of Florida (USA)
Brook Martin, PhD, Geisel Mediterranean school at Dartmouth (USA)
Laura Stone, PhD, McGill College (Canada)

Last Updated August 28, 2014