Dale J. Langford, Ph.D. (McGill University) 2005-2009
Modulation of Pain by Social Factors
Dissertation Title: "Social modulation and communication of pain in the laboratory mouse."
Langford, D.J., Crager, S.E., Shehzad, Z.,Smith, S.B., Sotocinal, S.G., Levenstadt, J.S., Chanda, M.L., Levitin, D.J., and Mogil, J.S.Social modulation of pain as evidence for empathy in mice.Science, 312:1967-1970, 2006.
Langford, D.J. and Mogil, J.S. Pain testing in the laboratory mouse. In: Denneman, P. (ed.) Anesthesia and Analgesia of Laboratory Animals, 2nd ed. Academy Press: New York, 2008, pp. 549-560.
Langford, D.J., Tuttle, A.H., Brown, K., Deschenes, S., Fischer, D.B., Mutso, A., Root, K.C., Sotocinal, S.G., Stern, M.A., Mogil, J.S., and Sternberg, W.F. Social approach to pain in laboratory mice. Soc. Neurosci., 5:163-170, 2010.
Langford, D.J., Bailey, A.L., Chanda, M.L., Clarke, S.E., Drummond, T.E., Echols, S., Glick, S., Ingrao, J., Klassen-Ross, T., LaCroix-Fralish, M.L., Matsumiya, L., Sorge, R.E., Sotocinal, S.G., Tabaka, J.M., Wong, D., van den Maagdenberg, A.M.J.M., Ferrari, M.D., Craig, K.D., and Mogil, J.S. Coding of facial expressions of pain in the laboratory mouse. Nat. Meth., 7:447-449, 2010.
Mogil, J.S., Graham, A.C., Ritchie, J., Hughes, S.F., Austin, J.-S., Schorscher-Petcu, A., Langford, D.J., and Bennett, G.J. Hypolocomotion, asymmetrically directed behaviors (licking, lifting, flinching, and shaking) and dynamic weight bearing (gait) changes are not measures of neuropathic pain in mice. Mol. Pain, 6:34, 2010.
Langford, D.J., Tuttle, A.H., Briscoe, C., Harvey-Lewis, C., Baran, I., Gleeson, P., Fischer, D.B., Buonora, M., Sternberg, W.F., and Mogil, J.S. Varying perceived social threat modulates pain behavior in male mice. J. Pain, 12:125-132, 2011.