ICS 2015 Round Table Discussion 9 - Understanding Pelvic Pain

Speakers
	Round Table Discussion 9
	Friday 9th October 2015
	08:00 - 09:00
	210BC
	Lunch provided
L Lysanne Campeau Chair Y Yukio Homma Speaker F Fernando Cervero Speaker J Jeffrey Mogil Speaker
Learning Objectives
Learn the relationship between sensitization of bladder afferents, enhanced excitability of central nervous system pathways and chronic bladder pain. Understand the emerging evidence for separate biological processing of pain in the spinal cord by sex. Learn the concept of hypersensitive bladder in relation to interstitial cystitis and overactive bladder.

Topic	Speaker
Why do we feel pain? Neuroplasticity in the chronification of pain symptoms	Fernando Cervero
The social neuroscience of pain: does gender matter?	Jeff Mogil
Hypersensitive bladder – its clinical and biological implication	Yukio Homma
Discussion	All