{"id":10538,"date":"2021-02-05T08:25:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T13:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=10538"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:47","slug":"grad-research-looking-at-improving-the-lives-of-people-living-with-chronic-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2021\/grad-research-looking-at-improving-the-lives-of-people-living-with-chronic-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Grad Research: Looking at Improving the Lives of People Living With Chronic Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Grad Research: Looking at Improving the Lives of People Living With Chronic Pain\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Living with chronic pain is something many people know too well, and is very much something that affects their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephanie Norlock, a second-year&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/graduate.carleton.ca\/cu-programs\/neuroscience-masters\/\">Master\u2019s Neuroscience<\/a>&nbsp;student has been using computational approaches to study pathological mechanisms driving chronic pain within the spinal cord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUnderstanding functional differences across chronic pain states may impact chronic pain patients through the development of new treatment targets in the nervous system for specialized types of chronic pain, development of novel assays, tests, or scans for specific chronic pain diagnoses, and even further characterizing chronic pain diagnoses on paper to provide more accessible diagnosis and treatment avenues for clinicians to navigate with their patients,\u201d explained Norlock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/2021\/grad-research-looking-at-improving-the-lives-of-people-living-with-chronic-pain\/\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living with chronic pain is something many people know too well, and is very much something that affects their lives. Stephanie Norlock, a second-year&nbsp;Master\u2019s Neuroscience&nbsp;student has been using computational approaches to study pathological mechanisms driving chronic pain within the spinal cord. &nbsp; \u201cUnderstanding functional differences across chronic pain states may impact chronic pain patients through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grad-student-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10540,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538\/revisions\/10540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}