Rich Harrison
@richharrison.bsky.social
Pain Researcher and Lecturer at Uni of Reading, within the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN). Interested in neuroinflammation within Long Covid and Chronic Pain, presurgical assessment and psychological individual differences
Really pleased to have kept the promise I made during our workshop at EFIC (@maitevdm.bsky.social, @head-like-egg.bsky.social), and our work on the stability of pain habituation/sensitisation, and the underlying neural mechanisms. A long way to go, and a deep field of study. #psychology #pain #efic
September 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Really pleased to have kept the promise I made during our workshop at EFIC (@maitevdm.bsky.social, @head-like-egg.bsky.social), and our work on the stability of pain habituation/sensitisation, and the underlying neural mechanisms. A long way to go, and a deep field of study. #psychology #pain #efic
Have you undergone a gynaecological procedure, or know people who have? @tiger-uk.bsky.social want to hear from the patient voice.
Can you complete this brief 5-10min survey, and help circulate in your own channels too? Share far and wide! We need patient voices.
Survey: shorturl.at/Gqdo6
Can you complete this brief 5-10min survey, and help circulate in your own channels too? Share far and wide! We need patient voices.
Survey: shorturl.at/Gqdo6
Microsoft Forms
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July 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Have you undergone a gynaecological procedure, or know people who have? @tiger-uk.bsky.social want to hear from the patient voice.
Can you complete this brief 5-10min survey, and help circulate in your own channels too? Share far and wide! We need patient voices.
Survey: shorturl.at/Gqdo6
Can you complete this brief 5-10min survey, and help circulate in your own channels too? Share far and wide! We need patient voices.
Survey: shorturl.at/Gqdo6
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Thank you to all you participated in this year's edition of Reading Emotions #ReadEmo25.
@wiebkegandhi.bsky.social and @richharrison.bsky.social will be chairing #ReadEmo26 on pain! Watch this space, and see you next year!
sites.google.com/site/reading...
@wiebkegandhi.bsky.social and @richharrison.bsky.social will be chairing #ReadEmo26 on pain! Watch this space, and see you next year!
sites.google.com/site/reading...
June 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Thank you to all you participated in this year's edition of Reading Emotions #ReadEmo25.
@wiebkegandhi.bsky.social and @richharrison.bsky.social will be chairing #ReadEmo26 on pain! Watch this space, and see you next year!
sites.google.com/site/reading...
@wiebkegandhi.bsky.social and @richharrison.bsky.social will be chairing #ReadEmo26 on pain! Watch this space, and see you next year!
sites.google.com/site/reading...
Am really excited for this event! In fact, going to scout out the beautiful London Road campus this morning in anticipation. @ameliahollywood.bsky.social
Join us at What is Pain Research? - a free community event from Pain Research Reading & PAINSTORM. Talks, demos & a live recording of PAINCAST with top researchers.
Sunday 22nd June 2025, 10 - 4 at the University of Reading. More details to follow!
#pain #research #painstorm #paincast #AcademicSky
Sunday 22nd June 2025, 10 - 4 at the University of Reading. More details to follow!
#pain #research #painstorm #paincast #AcademicSky
May 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Am really excited for this event! In fact, going to scout out the beautiful London Road campus this morning in anticipation. @ameliahollywood.bsky.social
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Pint of Science is coming to Reading! 🧠
Join us on the 19th, 20th, & 21st May at Park House (our local pub!) for an exciting series of science evenings.
Featuring cutting-edge research from PhD students & early career scientists, Pint of Science makes science accessible, engaging, and fun.
Join us on the 19th, 20th, & 21st May at Park House (our local pub!) for an exciting series of science evenings.
Featuring cutting-edge research from PhD students & early career scientists, Pint of Science makes science accessible, engaging, and fun.
May 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Pint of Science is coming to Reading! 🧠
Join us on the 19th, 20th, & 21st May at Park House (our local pub!) for an exciting series of science evenings.
Featuring cutting-edge research from PhD students & early career scientists, Pint of Science makes science accessible, engaging, and fun.
Join us on the 19th, 20th, & 21st May at Park House (our local pub!) for an exciting series of science evenings.
Featuring cutting-edge research from PhD students & early career scientists, Pint of Science makes science accessible, engaging, and fun.
March 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Once again, another lovely bit of news coming out of the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. I can confirm, they are overall, a generally lovely bunch of highly professional carers. Very pleased to know them #RBFT #NHS
www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/news/royal-b...
www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/news/royal-b...
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust receives top scores in NHS Staff Survey 2024 - Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust has been ranked as the top acute Trust in England across multiple areas of staff experience in this year’s NHS Staff Survey.
www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk
March 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Once again, another lovely bit of news coming out of the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. I can confirm, they are overall, a generally lovely bunch of highly professional carers. Very pleased to know them #RBFT #NHS
www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/news/royal-b...
www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/news/royal-b...
Fantastic news, and well-earned acknowledgement of the quality of their clinical research output these days. @ameliahollywood.bsky.social
www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/news/royal-b...
www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/news/royal-b...
Royal Berkshire becomes first NHS trust to receive full GCSA certification due to ‘world-class’ research - Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Research at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust has been recognised as ‘world-class’ after becoming the first NHS trust to receive full GCSA certification.
www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk
February 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Fantastic news, and well-earned acknowledgement of the quality of their clinical research output these days. @ameliahollywood.bsky.social
www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/news/royal-b...
www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/news/royal-b...
Trying to tackle the emergence of long, passive waitlists for pain management. We've been working on some strategies to change this. Open access, please have a read if interested!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39777271/
#painscience #psychology
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39777271/
#painscience #psychology
Activating waitlists: Identifying barriers and facilitators to pain self-management while waiting - PubMed
This study demonstrates the severe emotional and motivational impact of waiting, increasing treatment disengagement. The waitlist represents a prime opportunity for prehabilitation to protect wellbein...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Trying to tackle the emergence of long, passive waitlists for pain management. We've been working on some strategies to change this. Open access, please have a read if interested!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39777271/
#painscience #psychology
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39777271/
#painscience #psychology
Well and truly collapsing across the finish line this year. Goodness me that was one hell of a semester. Wishing everyone a restful and regenerative Christmas break and happy new year.
December 20, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Well and truly collapsing across the finish line this year. Goodness me that was one hell of a semester. Wishing everyone a restful and regenerative Christmas break and happy new year.
Very interesting work on the power of expectation in pain management: Treating human beings, not isolated mechanisms.
#neuroscience #painscience #psychology
#neuroscience #painscience #psychology
Here's a paper we published earlier this year showing that patients' treatment expectations were associated with response to lidocaine infusion over 8 weeks. Patients' alliance with their provider was also related to positive expectations and pain relief
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Patient Expectations and Therapeutic Alliance Affect Pain Reduction Following Lidocaine Infusion in an Interdisciplinary Chronic Pain Clinic
Pain experience is affected by both ascending nociceptive signals and descending modulation. Expectations can affect pain experience and augment treat…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Very interesting work on the power of expectation in pain management: Treating human beings, not isolated mechanisms.
#neuroscience #painscience #psychology
#neuroscience #painscience #psychology
Tremendous campaign that I've very happily been a part of in the past. Fully deserving of their nomination and the knowledge that this is simply another big step in a powerful journey.
Today is the day! We’re shortlisted for two awards tonight: The HSJ Awards and the Bright Ideas in Health Award. The team are at different ends of the country to celebrate both. ✨✨
We couldn’t have gotten here without our partners, Teesside University being one of them. 💙
We couldn’t have gotten here without our partners, Teesside University being one of them. 💙
November 27, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Tremendous campaign that I've very happily been a part of in the past. Fully deserving of their nomination and the knowledge that this is simply another big step in a powerful journey.
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Some of us in the ADVANTAGE visceral pain consortium (@denklab.bsky.social + others not on 🦋 yet) recently got together to talk about all thinks visceral pain courtesy of @rpseal.bsky.social who runs The Pain Beat podcast 😃 #neuroskyence #PainResearch
www.iasp-pain.org/publications...
www.iasp-pain.org/publications...
The Pain Beat (Episode 17) – Experience, Study, and Treatment of Visceral Pain - International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)
Manager’s note: Welcome to the 17th episode of The Pain Beat! Launched and supported by a generous grant from the MAYDAY Fund, with additional funding from the Rita Allen Foundation, […]
www.iasp-pain.org
November 25, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Some of us in the ADVANTAGE visceral pain consortium (@denklab.bsky.social + others not on 🦋 yet) recently got together to talk about all thinks visceral pain courtesy of @rpseal.bsky.social who runs The Pain Beat podcast 😃 #neuroskyence #PainResearch
www.iasp-pain.org/publications...
www.iasp-pain.org/publications...
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Our Topical Review in PAIN on body image, sex, gender and pain is now published. Have a read to see how we think these ideas may be linked, and let us know what you think.
journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
November 19, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Our Topical Review in PAIN on body image, sex, gender and pain is now published. Have a read to see how we think these ideas may be linked, and let us know what you think.
journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
Happy to be off Twitter, and hope Bluesky resists the same decline..
Taking the opportunity to share my PhD student, Lydia Tidmarsh's, recent review on the devastating 'iceberg' of childhood trauma in chronic pain.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35756908/
Taking the opportunity to share my PhD student, Lydia Tidmarsh's, recent review on the devastating 'iceberg' of childhood trauma in chronic pain.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35756908/
November 18, 2024 at 8:44 AM
Happy to be off Twitter, and hope Bluesky resists the same decline..
Taking the opportunity to share my PhD student, Lydia Tidmarsh's, recent review on the devastating 'iceberg' of childhood trauma in chronic pain.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35756908/
Taking the opportunity to share my PhD student, Lydia Tidmarsh's, recent review on the devastating 'iceberg' of childhood trauma in chronic pain.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35756908/