SEMINAR: �The TOLL of knowing you are sick: implications for pain and addiction�

Associate Prof Mark Hutchinson is an Australian Research Council Research Fellow in the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Adelaide. Having graduated with a PhD (Med) in Pharmacology from the University of Adelaide, Mark joined Prof Linda Watkins lab at the University of Colorado at Boulder. It was here Mark extended his training in Neuroscience and pioneered work establishing a role for immune signals within the brain as pivotal to altered opioid analgesic responses and activation of reward pathways. The seminar "The TOLL of knowing you are sick: implications for pain and addiction" will give an overview of how immune-to-brain communication changes behaviour, some for good and some for bad. Critically, Mark will highlight the exciting opportunities that viewing the brain as an immune-competent organ has for the management and possible disease modification of disorders of the central nervous system.