Current scientific and human issues in pain research
Professor Nathan Moreau's webinar is now available on video.
Professor Nathan MOREAU is an oral surgeon and neurobiologist, university professor and hospital practitioner in oral medicine and surgery. He created and directs the oro-facial pain consultation at Bretonneau Hospital in Paris (AP-HP). His clinical and scientific activities focus on the diagnosis and management of trigeminal neuropathies and orofacial headaches. He is attached to the Neurosciences oro-faciales team, UMR-S 1333 Santé orale, INSERM/Université Paris Cité and to the UFR d'Odontologie, Faculté de Santé, Université Paris Cité. He is a board member of the French Society for the Study and Treatment of Pain. In this webinar organized in partnership with the French Society for the Study and Treatment of Pain (SFETD), he presents some of the current questions and issues guiding thinking and research on pain.
Pain is a complex and paradoxical human experience: a collective and universal experience par excellence, it nevertheless remains particularly idiosyncratic. Although it has affected humanity since the dawn of time, its management has only become a legal obligation in France since the March 4, 2002 law on patients' rights. While the management of acute pain, particularly procedural pain, is well codified and effective, the same cannot be said for chronic pain, which remains insufficiently relieved to this day, despite numerous conceptual and scientific advances. Current research is striving to better understand the painful experience in its biological, human and social expression. Thinking about (and healing) pain can therefore only be conceived from a translational, multidisciplinary, multi-thematic and multi-faceted perspective.
The video of this webinar is available on the youtube channel of the National Platform for End-of-Life Research and on a dedicated page of its website.