Mondays 3:00 – 5:00 Starzl BST Room 1495
Course Director: Sarah E. Ross, saross@pitt.edu, BST W1456, 412-624-9178
Course Description: This course will focus on the design and analysis of animal and human pain models. Classes will be interactive, with a focus on experimental design. We will discuss the relevant history and rationale for use of different tests/models, including critical assessment of strengths/weaknesses and limitations to interpretation of outcomes.
Students registered in the course will be evaluated based on their participation during lectures (25%), a mock review of a paper (50%), and a final examination (25%).
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Pain Models Schedule Fall 2022
Aug. 29th – Introduction/Acute Pain Models (Ross)
Sept 5th – Labor Day – no class
Sept 12 – Rigor and Reproducibility and Experimental Design (Ross)
Sept 19th – Class cancelled for IASP World Congress on Pain
Sept 26th –Power Calculations and Statistics (Gold)
Oct 3rd – Neuropathic Pain Models (Gold)
Oct 10th – Orofacial and headache pain (Scheff/Gold)
Oct 17th – Inflammatory Pain, Priming, and Latent Sensitization (Albers/Tayler)
Oct. 24th – Cancer Pain (Saloman)
Oct. 31st – Visceral Pain (Davis)
Nov 7th – Affective Components of Pain and Itch
Nov 14th – Molecular Genetic Approaches to Study Pain (Seal)
Nov 21st – Human Pain Models (Alter)
Nov 28th – Machine Learning (Ross)
Dec 5th – Clinical Trials (Bulls)