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Etienne Vachon-Presseau

ResearcherMcGill University

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Etienne Vachon-Presseau

Researcher

Health Sciences

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
11 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 7 research grants (5 CIHR, 2 NSERC), most recently in 2024.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2023.

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Research

Chronic Pain Machine Learning Uk Biobank Mri Biomarkers Race/Ethnicity Risk Score Sex/Gender Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions

Latest papers

Sex-specific genetics underlie increased chronic pain risk in women: genome-wide association studies from the UK Biobank.
British journal of anaesthesia · 2025
Biological markers and psychosocial factors predict chronic pain conditions.
Nature human behaviour · 2025 · senior author
Tinnitus risk factors and its evolution over time.
Nature communications · 2025 · senior author

All 21 publications

Latest funding

Developing inclusive, ethical, and responsible markers for chronic pain conditions
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$623,475
Understanding the spatiotemporal trajectories of pain in Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$722,924
Understanding the Spread of Pain: An Integrative Genomic and Neurophysiological Study
CIHR · 2023 · Supervisor
$105,000

All 14 grants and awards

21 publications.

Sex-specific genetics underlie increased chronic pain risk in women: genome-wide association studies from the UK Biobank.

Parisien M, Fillingim M, Tanguay-Sabourin C, Roy M, Vachon-Presseau E, Diatchenko L

British journal of anaesthesia2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2025.04.013 PMID: 40410097

Biological markers and psychosocial factors predict chronic pain conditions.

Fillingim M, Tanguay-Sabourin C, Parisien M, Zare A, Guglietti GV, Norman J, Petre B, Bortsov A, Ware M, Perez J, Roy M, Diatchenko L, Vachon-Presseau E

Nature human behaviour2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02156-y PMID: 40355673

Tinnitus risk factors and its evolution over time.

Hobeika L, Fillingim M, Tanguay-Sabourin C, Roy M, Londero A, Samson S, Vachon-Presseau E

Nature communications2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-59445-3 PMID: 40335454

Antenatal socioeconomic status of childhood family and the risk of pain spreading (ROPS) in early and mid-adulthood - a descriptive study from the northern Finland birth cohort 1966.

Heikkala E, Rissanen I, Tanguay-Sabourin C, Vachon-Presseau E, Chang JR, Wong AYL, Karppinen J, Oura P

Journal of psychosomatic research2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2024.112014 PMID: 39674050

Modulating subjective pain perception with decoded Montreal Neurological Institute-space neurofeedback: a proof-of-concept study.

Berman T, Cushing C, Manuel S, Vachon-Presseau E, Cortese A, Kawato M, Woo CW, Wager TD, Lau H, Roy M, Taschereau-Dumouchel V

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2024

DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0082 PMID: 39428876

ENIGMA-Chronic Pain: a worldwide initiative to identify brain correlates of chronic pain.

Quidé Y, Jahanshad N, Andoh J, Antoniou G, Apkarian AV, Ashar YK, Badran BW, Baird CL, Baxter L, Bell TR, Blanco-Hinojo L, Borckardt J, Cheung CL, Ciampi de Andrade D, Couto BA, Cox SR, Cruz-Almeida Y, Dannlowski U, De Martino E, de Tommaso M, Deus J, Domin M, Egorova-Brumley N, Elliott J, Fanton S, Fauchon C, Flor H, Franz CE, Gatt JM, Gerdhem P, Gilman JM, Gollub RL, Govind V, Graven-Nielsen T, Håkansson G, Hales T, Haswell C, Heukamp NJ, Hu L, Huang L, Hussain A, Jensen K, Kircher T, Kremen WS, Leehr EJ, Lindquist M, Loggia ML, Lotze M, Martucci KT, Meeker TJ, Meinert S, Millard SK, Morey RA, Murillo C, Nees F, Nenadic I, Park HRP, Peng X, Ploner M, Pujol J, Robayo LE, Salan T, Seminowicz DA, Serian A, Slater R, Stein F, Stevens J, Strauss S, Sun D, Vachon-Presseau E, Valdes-Hernandez PA, Vanneste S, Vernon M, Verriotis M, Wager TD, Widerstrom-Noga E, Woodbury A, Zeidan F, Bhatt RR, Ching CRK, Haddad E, Thomopoulos SI, Thompson PM, Gustin SM

Pain2024

DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003317 PMID: 39058957

A distributed brain response predicting the facial expression of acute nociceptive pain.

Picard ME, Kunz M, Chen JI, Coll MP, Vachon-Presseau E, Wager TD, Rainville P

eLife2024

DOI: 10.7554/elife.87962 PMID: 39526882

A prognostic risk score for development and spread of chronic pain.

Tanguay-Sabourin C, Fillingim M, Guglietti GV, Zare A, Parisien M, Norman J, Sweatman H, Da-Ano R, Heikkala E, PREVENT-AD Research Group, Perez J, Karppinen J, Villeneuve S, Thompson SJ, Martel MO, Roy M, Diatchenko L, Vachon-Presseau E

Nature medicine2023

DOI: 10.1038/s41591-023-02430-4 PMID: 37414898

Predicting placebo analgesia in patients with chronic pain using natural language processing: a preliminary validation study.

Branco P, Berger S, Abdullah T, Vachon-Presseau E, Cecchi G, Apkarian AV

Pain2023

DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002808 PMID: 36524810

Validating a biosignature-predicting placebo pill response in chronic pain in the settings of a randomized controlled trial.

Vachon-Presseau E, Abdullah TB, Berger SE, Huang L, Griffith JW, Schnitzer TJ, Apkarian AV

Pain2022First author

DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002450 PMID: 34433773

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Etienne Vachon-Presseau

Research

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Sex-specific genetics underlie increased chronic pain risk in women: genome-wide association studies from the UK Biobank.

Biological markers and psychosocial factors predict chronic pain conditions.

Tinnitus risk factors and its evolution over time.

Antenatal socioeconomic status of childhood family and the risk of pain spreading (ROPS) in early and mid-adulthood - a descriptive study from the northern Finland birth cohort 1966.

Modulating subjective pain perception with decoded Montreal Neurological Institute-space neurofeedback: a proof-of-concept study.

ENIGMA-Chronic Pain: a worldwide initiative to identify brain correlates of chronic pain.

A distributed brain response predicting the facial expression of acute nociceptive pain.

A prognostic risk score for development and spread of chronic pain.

Predicting placebo analgesia in patients with chronic pain using natural language processing: a preliminary validation study.

Validating a biosignature-predicting placebo pill response in chronic pain in the settings of a randomized controlled trial.

Mapping cortical pain circuits using very high field magnetic resonance imaging

Mapping cortical pain circuits using very high field magnetic resonance imaging

Frequent collaborators

Mathieu Roy

Mathieu Roy

Luda Diatchenko

Pierre Rainville

Sylvia Villeneuve

Etienne Caron

Judes Poirier

Marie-France Marin

Michel-Pierre Coll

Serge Gauthier

Marie-France Marin

Artur Kania

Yasser Iturria Medina

Serge Gauthier

Sonia Lupien

Mark Ware

Boris Bernhardt

Pedro Rosa-Neto