Symposium session: How sleep affects pain: evidence from studies in healthy volunteers and chronic pain patients
Tracks
Track 5
| Saturday, October 19, 2024 |
| 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM |
| Room 7 |
Details
Poor sleep exacerbates pain and coexists with chronic pain up to 90% of the time. Increasingly more evidence suggests that sleep impacts pain than the other way around (pain on sleep). One of the ways in which poor sleep influences pain is through increasing systemic inflammation, which in turn facilitates peripheral and central sensitisation, as well as altering brain structure and function. Reduced sleep duration or quality is known to alter pain sensation in both pain and pain-free populations. Understanding which aspects of sleep shape the experience of pain and what mechanisms underlie this relationship has high potential to open new clinical avenues for preventing and reducing chronic pain. The relationship between sleep and pain is also important for sleep clinicians to consider given the high co-occurrence between the two.
Speaker
Prof Amy Jordan
Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.
University of Melbourne
Chair and Introduction
3:45 PM - 3:55 PMBiography
Professor Jordan is the Director of the John Trinder Sleep Laboratory at the University of Melbourne. She is interested in the relationships between poor sleep and poor mental and physical health outcomes.
Ms Shima Rouhi
Phd
University of Melbourne
Experimental evidence of the effects of poor sleep on pain sensitivity in healthy population
3:55 PM - 4:10 PMBiography
Shima Rouhi is a third-year PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. She holds a master's degree in clinical psychology, with a focus on the psychological factors affecting people with chronic pain. Her current research interests involve investigating the underlying mechanisms of the interaction between sleep and pain that shape pain perception. More specifically, she aims to understand how natural sleep variations and deficiencies impact pain perception and identify individuals who are more susceptible to developing pain hypersensitivity, a marker of chronic pain onset.
Dr David Klyne
NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow
University of Queensland
The role of sleep, physical activity and central sensitisation in chronic pain development
4:10 PM - 4:25 PMBiography
Dr David Klyne is a NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow and Fulbright Scholar at The University of Queensland. There he leads an international team that probe the bio-psycho-social mechanisms that underlie pain. His niche is in understanding the neuro-immune pathways involved and how they can be targeted with interventions using a blend of basic and clinical sciences. David has received numerous national and international research awards including a Queensland Young Tall Poppy Award and the premier international prize in spinal research (ISSLS Prize) twice, and has received >$110K in research prize money and >$17.5M ($8.5M as CIA) in research funding.
Assoc Prof Natalia Egorova-Brumley
Associate Professor
University of Melbourne
The effects of poor sleep on brain structure in chronic pain
4:25 PM - 4:40 PMBiography
Natalia Egorova-Brumley is an Associate Professor at the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences. She completed her PhD in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, and received postdoctoral training in pain neuroimaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School. After moving to Australia, she worked at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health before starting her own Pain and Cognition Neuroimaging Lab at the University of Melbourne as an ARC DECRA Fellow. She combines cognitive and clinical neuroimaging lines of research to understand how pain impacts the brain and how cognition alters pain processing. She is currently an ARC Future Fellow investigating the neurobiological mechanisms of the interaction between pain and sleep.
Prof Mark Howard
Director Vrss
Institute for Breathing and Sleep / Austin Health / University of Melbourne / Monash University
Chair: Panel discussion
Biography
