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Further information on pain research studies is located at the Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab website.
Selected Press Archive
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Dr. Mackey was recently features on KVIE's ViewFinder program:
Our article, Viewing Pictures of a Romantic Partner Reduces Experimental Pain: Involvement of Neural Reward Systems, was recently featured on this nationally syndicated CBS News segment:
The study was also featured on Fox News:
This segment features our participation in the 2008 Discovery Channel series
The Human Body: Pushing The Limits:
FORA.tv is hosting video from Dr. Mackey's appearance at the Commonwealth Club of California on July 30, 2008. An audio only recording is located in our Audio Archive, below.
Audio Archive
Dr. Mackey participated with Dr. Martin Angst and Melanie Thernstrom in a KQED interview on Michael Krasny's FORUM program January 23, 2012.
Dr. Mackey contributed to a 2011 Johns Hopkins University CME program on Fibromyalgia in Primary Care. You can stream the audio below. Full details are here.
Dr. Mackey was recently interviewed on the Stanford 1:2:1 podcast. The audio file is streaming here.
Drs. Mackey and Younger were recently featured in an audio report on Medpage Today. You can stream the episode below, or download the mp3 at this link.
Dr. Mackey was recently featured on the Scientific American podcast. You can stream the episode below, or download the mp3 at this link.
Dr. Mackey's research into pain using real-time magnetic imaging was also recently featured on both National Public Radio and the local KQED Health Dialogues program. The NPR segment featuring Dr. Mackey can be found here. The full Health Dialogues program discussing pain is available here. You can also stream the clip below:
KCBS Radio Feature December 13 2005:
Print Archive
- More progress in the quest for a "painometer". SCOPE BLOG December 17 2012
- Gain in pain: Stanford researchers use brain scans, algorithms to ID chronic pain patients. SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS TIMES December 17 2012
- Neuroscience mapping brain connections. LA TIMES September 13 2012
- The Numbers Game: How Many Americans Have Chronic Pain? AMERICAN NEWS REPORT May 16 2012
- Education a Cornerstone of Effective Opioid Management. FAMILY PRACTICE NEWS March 16 2012
- Ask Stanford Med: Neuroscientist responds to questions on pain and love’s analgesic effects. SCOPE BLOG March 5 2012
- Promising Drug to Treat Fibromyalgia May Never Be Approved by FDA. AMERICAN NEWS REPORT February 27 2012
- Ask Stanford Med: Neuroscientist taking questions on pain and love's analgesic effects. SCOPE BLOG February 13 2012
- Rewiring the Brain to Ease Pain. WALL STREET JOURNAL November 15 2011
- The Ways We Talk About Pain. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN September 27 2011
- Brain Scans Suggest a New, Objective Way to Measure Pain. DISCOVER MAGAZINE September 22 2011
- A New, Objective Way to Study Pain. THE ATLANTIC September 21 2011
- An Objective Way to Measure Pain. MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW September 14 2011
- Does that hurt? Objective way to measure pain being developed at Stanford. STANFORD PRESS RELEASE September 13 2011
- New IOM Report Lays Out Plan For Improving Pain Care.
PAIN MEDICINE NEWS August 2011 - Headache clinic to open at Stanford. PALO ALTO WEEKLY July 22 2011
- National Expert to Lead New Stanford Headache Clinic.
PRESS RELEASE July 20 2011 - Giving Chronic Pain a Medical Platform of Its Own. NEW YORK TIMES July 18 2011
- When Someone Says, “My Stomach Hurts,” Stanford Listens.
PRESS RELEASE July 11 2011 - Doctors' Challenge: How Real Is That Pain? WALL STREET JOURNAL July 5 2011
- New Report Details Uphill Battle to Solve the U.S.'s Pain Problem.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN July 1 2011 - Major Changes Needed to End Inadequate Pain Management for Millions.
HEALTH NEWS DIGEST June 29 2011 - US pain management falls short, UAB professor aided-study finds.
AOL June 29 2011 - Challenges of Treating Chronic Pain in People with Opioid Dependence. DRUGFREE.ORG June 24 2011
- Back pain is a complicated issue. LA TIMES April 4 2011
- AAPM: State of Mind Can Turn Acute Pain to Chronic.
MEDPAGE TODAY March 28 2011 - Healing the Hurt. TIME February 24 2011
- Pain be gone. NEW SCIENTIST January 22 2011
- Study shows people in love feel less pain.
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS January 5 2011 - Passionate love can relieve pain, researchers find.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE November 22 2010 - Love: A natural painkiller? USA TODAY October 15 2010
- Your love is my drug: How passion sparks the same painkilling pathways as drugs. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN October 14 2010
- Love A Potent Painkiller, Stanford Researchers Say. KCBS5 San Francisco. October 13 2010
- Love really is like a drug. THE GUARDIAN October 13 2010
- Love and Pain Relief. NEW YORK TIMES October 13 2010
- Love takes up where pain leaves off, brain study shows.
INSIDE STANFORD MEDICINE October 13 2010 - Love is a powerful painkiller, study finds. LOS ANGELES TIMES October 13 2010
- Trial Examines 5-HT3 Antagonist for Opioid Withdrawal.
ANESTHESIOLOGY NEWS July 2010 - How the Mind Controls Pain. MSN HEALTH & FITNESS June 21 2010
- Pain Management: A Whole Body Experience. STANFORD ACCESS June 2010
- Shooting Pain. NATURE October 28 2009
- At Least 34 Research Jobs at Stanford Medical School from Stimulus Funds.BUSINESS WIRE August 4 2009
- Ban Is Advised on 2 Top Pills for Pain Relief. NEW YORK TIMES July 1 2009
- 'Life-Changing Benefits' for Patients Using Addiction Drug.
THE HERALD April 25 2009 - Addiction Drug May Relieve Fibromyalgia Symptoms. REUTERS April 24 2009
- Heroin Addiction Drug May Relieve Symptoms of Fibromyalgia.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN April 17 2009 - Inexpensive Drug Appears to Relieve Fibromyalgia Pain in Stanford Pilot Study.STANFORD MEDNEWS April 16 2009
- Brain Scans of Pain Raise Questions for the Law.
SCIENCE January 9 2009 - A Spoonful of Sugar Pills. STANFORD MEDICINE Summer 2008
- Taking Your Life Back from Pain's Control. PALO ALTO WEEKLY July 23 2008
- Stanford Pain Center Receives Center of Excellence Recognition.
APS Press Release April 2008 - Son Finds Hope for Dying Father on Internet.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE February 2008 - A Growing Cadre of Doctors and Scientists Now Believes that Chronic Back Pain is a Disease of the Nervous System, Not the Spine. BEST LIFE January 2008
- Pain. AUSTIN FIT September 2007
- Natural-Born Pain Killers. PREVENTION July 2007
- The Changing Science of Pain. NEWSWEEK June 2007
- Brain Powered. READER'S DIGEST March 2007
- Patients Learn to Use Brain to Beat Pain.
KGO-TV (San Francisco) February 27 2007 - New Findings on Pain Relief. CONSUMER REPORTS ON HEALTH September 2006
- Placebo's Power Goes Beyond the Mind. MSNBC August 21 2006
- Training Attention. MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW July 17 2006
- Seeing Your Pain. MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW July 11 2006
- Ouch! How to Relieve Chronic Pain. LADIES' HOME JOURNAL July 2006
- My Pain, My Brain. NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE May 14 2006
- Brain Over Pain. BOSTON GLOBE January 23 2006
- Doctor Treats Pain Without Pills. NBC NIGHTLY NEWS January 5 2006
- Think Away the Pain. WIRED NEWS December 21 2005
- Relief From Chronic Pain May Be a Thought Away.
NEW YORK TIMES December 20 2005 - Brain Scans Help Think Away Pain. BBC NEWS December 13 2005
- Pain Sufferers Use Brain to Find Relief. FORBES December 12 2005
- Thought Control Brings Pain Into Line. NATURE December 12 2005
- How to Think Your Pain Away. TIMES ONLINE (UK) December 12 2005
- It's All in Your Head. STANFORD MEDICINE Fall 2005
- Pain & Women's Health. NATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH REPORT June 2005
- Pain May Be in the Brain, But It's Still Real. ABC NEWS May 13 2005
- Chronic Pain: The Enemy Within. USA TODAY May 8 2005
- ABC News/USA Today/Stanford Pain Poll Results PR May 9 2005
- ICPSR ABC News/USA Today/Stanford Pain Poll April 2005 Codebook
- The Pain is in the Brain. STANFORD CENTER FOCUS Spring 2005
- The Right (and Wrong) Way to Treat Pain. TIME February 28 2005 (html / PDF)
- Your Pain, My Brain. PSYCHOLOGY TODAY July 2003
- The Pain Truth. GOOD HOUSEKEEPING May 2003
USA TODAY / ABC News Feature May 2005
Drs. Sean Mackey & Raymond Gaeta are pleased to have had the opportunity to work closely with ABC and USA TODAY in their collaborative effort to spotlight Pain Management in the recent feature series "The Fight Against Pain". The series represents an unprecedented effort to bring the important topic of pain and its consequences and treatment options to a wide audience. Beginning Saturday, May 6 on an assortment of ABC News programs, and Monday, May 8th in the pages of USA TODAY, a variety of features examined how pain impacts millions of people every day, as well as focused on breakthrough treatment technologies currently under development, including very promising research underway at Stanford's Pain Management Center.
The coverage also coincided with the release of an exclusive national public opinion poll on pain co-sponsored by ABC News, USA TODAY and the Stanford University Medical Center. An ABC News summary of the poll can be found here. The full publication of the survey results is available in Adobe PDF format here.
