- Relief News, 2020, By Danielle Perro
“Stopping the Transition to Chronic Pain” - The Wall Street Journal, Jan 20, 2020, By Sumathi Reddy
“A Placebo for Pain Relief, Even When You Know It’s Not Real” - Pain Research Forum, Aug 26, 2019, By Nadia Soliman
“Chaos Leads to Creativity: A Conversation with A. Vania Apkarian” - NUFeinbergMed Channel on Youtube, 2018
“Chronic Pain and the Placebo Effect with A. Vania Apkarian, PhD” - NIHNINDS Channel on Youtube, 2014
“Brain determinants of risk for pain chronification” - European Pain Federation Channel on Youtube, 2014
“Pain in the Brain with Dr. Vania Apkarian” - Science Daily Oct 28, 2016
“Placebo sweet spot for pain relief identified in the brain” - Nature News Feb 25, 2015
“Neuroscience in court: The painful truth” - Mens Health Dec 3, 2014
“The Bad Habit That Can Cause Persistent Back Pain” - WFPL News, Louisville Nov 10, 2014
“Smokers Experience More Chronic Back Pain Than Non-Smokers, Study Says” - Counsel & Heal Nov 3, 2014
“Brain study links smoking to back pain” - National Pain Report Nov 4, 2014
“How smoking makes chronic pain worse” - Pain Research Forum Feb 6, 2014
“The Collective Good: Pooling data to boost brain imaging research” - Wallstreet Journal Jan 31, 2014
“Why Women Are Living in the Discomfort Zone” - Los Angeles Times September 18th, 2013
“Even before injury, chronic back pain may start in the brain” - redOrbit September 18th, 2013
“Structure of the brain may predispose you to chronic pain” - HealthCentral September 18th, 2013
“Some brains may be hard-wired for chronic pain” - Z News September 18th, 2013
“Brain structure may reveal if you will suffer from chronic low back pain or not” - American News Report September 18th, 2013
“Scientists Say Brain ‘Hot[sic] Wired’ for Chronic Pain” - LiveScience.com September 18, 2013
“Some Brains May Be Hard-Wired forChronic Pain”
Also featured by Fox News (online) and Yahoo! News - PBS News Hour September 17, 2013
“If your back hurts it could be in your head – literally” - WLS TV September 17th, 2013
“Brain scans may detect predisposition to chronic pain” - Escience news September 17th, 2013
“Brain may be hard-wired for chronic pain” - Northwestern University (Press Release) September 17th, 2013
Predicting who will have chronic pain - Counsel & Heal September 17th, 2013
“Brain Structure May Predict Chronic Pain” - NINDS Press Release September 17, 2013
“NIH-funded study suggests brain is hard-wired for chronic pain”
Also featured by ScienceDaily.com, Medicalxpress.com, healthcanal.com, Laboratoryequipment.com and news-medical.net - MDlinx September 3rd, 2013
“Shape shifting pain: chronification of back pain shifts brain representation from nociceptive to emotional circuits.” - NIH Directors Blog August 13, 2013
“How Does Acute Pain Become Chronic?” - Painresearchforum.org November 6th, 2012
“Brain white matter structure may predict chronic pain vulnerability” - Scientific American October 15, 201e2
“How Chronic Pain Affects Memory and Mood” - Science News August 11, 2012
“Some brains may be primed for pain” - ABC: Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) August 6, 2012
“Chronic pain may be all in your head” - LA Times July 3, 2012
“Chronic pain can be predicted by pattern in brain, scientists find” - Der Spiegel July 2, 2012
“Chronic pain is in the mind” - US News and World Report: Health July 2, 2012
“Chronic Pain May Depend on Emotional Reaction to Injury” - Science Daily July 1, 2012
“Why Chronic Pain Is All in Your Head: Early Brain Changes Predict Which Patients Develop Chronic Pain” - Science Now July 1, 2012
“Blaming the Brain for Chronic Back Pain” - BBC World: Health July 2, 2012
“The emotional origins of chronic pain” - Bodyinmind.org May 29, 2012
“Vania Apkarian and the holy grail” - EMBO ReportsFebruary 19, 2012
“Getting Tough on Pain” - The Bulletin September 3, 2009
“Managing pain: A new understanding of how chronic pain differs from acute is paving the way for alternative therapies” - Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association December 1, 2008
“Brain is rewired in patients with chronic pain syndrome” - EurekAlert! November 26, 2008
“Baffling chronic pain linked to rewiring of brain” - Children’s Neurobiological Solutions Foundation November 26, 2008
“Baffling chronic pain linked to rewiring of brain: Brain looks like inept cable guy changed the hookups” - The Baltimore Sun April 14, 2008
“Old Antibiotic May Be Used to Treat Mental Illnesses” - Baltimore Sun April 12th, 2008
“Old antibiotic offers range of new uses” - Red Orbit April 12th, 2008
“Old Antibiotic Gets New Life in Modern Medicine” - Medical News: Pain Management February 6th, 2008
“Chronic Pain Disrupts Resting Brain Dynamics” - ABC News Medical Unit February 6th, 2008
“How Chronic Pain Gets Into Your Head - ScienceDaily February 6th, 2008
“Chronic Pain Harms The Brain” - Reuters February 5th, 2008
“Chronic pain seen altering how brain works” - EurekAlert February 5th, 2008
“Chronic Pain Harms the Brain” - NewsCenter Northwestern University News and Information February 5th, 2008
“Chronic Pain Harms the Brain” - BestLife Health & Fitness January 21st, 2008
“A growing cadre of doctors and scientists now believes that chronic back pain is a disease of the nervous system, not the spine” - Technology Review November 11, 2007
“The Brain in Chronic Pain” - Pro Health August 14, 2007
“A Drug Treatment for Chronic Pain and Erasing Its Memory” - Pro Health August 11, 2007
“d-cycloserine reduces neuropathic pain behavior through limbic NMDA-mediated circuitry” - Washington Post June 21, 2007
“‘Memory Traces’ May Help Spur Chronic Pain” - Spine Health June 15, 2007
“How Chronic Back Pain Gets Stuck in Your Brain” - Medical News Today June 07, 2007
“Chronic Pain May Be Triggered By Old Memory Traces In Brain” - Softpedia June 06, 2007
“Chronic Pain Is in the Brain, not in the Injury – Treating the emotions of the pain” - Science Daily June 05, 2007
“Newly Identified Drug Relieves Suffering” - Physorg June 04, 2007
“Old memory traces in brain may trigger chronic pain” - Chicago Tribune July 03, 2007
“Sometimes physical pain can be traced to memory” - Opinion 250 January 21, 2007
“Back Pain = Smaller Brain…Who Would Have Thought” - New York Times May 14, 2006
“My Pain, My Brain” - Portal Educativo del Estado ArgentinoDecember, 2005
“La Dinámica De Los Sistemas Complejos” - Faculty Of 1000 Medicine December 12, 2005
- Organic Style May, 2005
“Help for your Back!” - Science Central News February 15, 2005
“Back Pain Brain” - Clarin Salud January 7, 2005
“Un argentino propone estudiar el cerebro como una red similar a Internet” - MSNBC News January 4, 2005
“How Your Brain is Like The Internet” - Boston Globe November 30, 2004
- Detroit Free Press November 30, 2004
- LA Times November 29, 2004
- New Scientist November 27, 2004
“Does Back Pain Shrink Your Brain?” - Wissenchaft November 26, 2004
- Health Day News November 26, 2004
- Daily Mail November 23, 2004
“An Aching Back ‘Can Give You Brain Damage'” - WCBS NewsRadio 880 November 23, 2004
- Webindia November 23, 2004
- United Press International November 23, 2004
- NY Times November 23, 2004
- Santa Barbara County – Network of Care November 23, 2004
- Chicago Tribune November 23, 2004
- BBC November 23, 2004
- Armenian Medical Network November 23, 2004
- WebMD Medical News November 22, 2004
- The Kansas City November 22, 2004
- ABC News November 22, 2004
- Reuters Health March, 2003
- Sunday NY Times February 27, 2000
“A Munch Moment” - Life Magazine October,1999
“Great Pictures of the Century” - Science & Vie October, 1999
“La Douleur Prise sur le Vif” - NY Times August 10,1999
“Peering into the Brain To See Pain at Work” - Armenian Academy Newspaper June, 1999