Since 2001, I have written about neuroscience for researchers, clinicians, patients, educators, and the public. I focus on chronic pain, Long COVID, and neurological disease. My work appears regularly in Scientific American, Knowable Magazine, Pain Research Forum, and RELIEF. I have worked in media including print, online, live presentation, and television. Below is a selection of my work. For more, see my complete archive.
Featured
New Scientist
Nov 2022
Scientific American
Mar 2023
How Your Itch Can Make Others Scratch
Scientific American
May 2024
RELIEF
Features
Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions: What Do They Share in Common, and What Are the Risk Factors? 15 Sept 2020
Switch to Telehealth During COVID-19 Pandemic Seen as “Silver Lining” of a Great “Natural Experiment” 26 May 2020
Men and Women, Male and Female Animals: What’s the Deal with Sex Differences in Chronic Pain? (Part 1) 15 Oct 2019
Looking to the Brain to Understand Chronic Pain 21 Mar 2018
Kids in Pain 1 Nov 2017
Fibromyalgia: Cracking the Case 21 Sep 2016
News
Higher Pain Ratings in African Americans Rooted in Discrimination May 7, 2020
A New Clinical Trial Shows Clear Benefits of TENS for Fibromyalgia – Finally! 11 Mar 2020
Neurons Go Haywire During Pain From Nerve Injury 1 Jul 2019
How Sleep Affects Pain11 Jun 2019
Expectations Versus Reality: Spinal Surgery Does Not End Opioid Use for Pain 10 Jul 2018
BrainFacts.org
Social Connection May Help Avoid Opioid Addiction Relapse 15 Mar 2019
Mitigating the Opioid Crisis 2 Nov 2018
Pain Research Forum
Pain Ligand-Receptor “Interactome” Revealed 24 May 2021
Resolving Pain: Macrophages Are the New Boss in Town 17 May 2021
How Food Triggers the Pain of Irritable Bowel Syndrome 17 Mar 2021
SARS-CoV-2 Interacts With Sensory Neurons 23 Nov 2020
COVID-19 Hits Pain Research Labs Hard 29 Apr 2020
Not All Pain Is the Same: Characterizing the Extent of High-Impact Chronic Pain 23 Apr 2019
Scientific American
How Your Itch Can Make Others Scratch 31 May 2024
The Brain and Long Covid Mar 2023
An Implantable Ice Pack Tries to Relieve Pain without Opioids 01 July 2022
How the New Antiviral Pills Help Thwart COVID 01 Dec 2021
In Autoimmune Disease, Organs May Lure the Immune System into an Attack 01 Sept 2021
If You Don’t Have COVID Vaccine Side Effects, Are You Still Protected? 01 Apr 2021
COVID Variants May Arise in People with Compromised Immune Systems 23 Feb 2021
COVID Can Cause Forgetfulness, Psychosis, Mania or a Stutter 21 Jan 2021
Mysteries of COVID Smell Loss Finally Yield Some Answers 18 Nov 2020
What We Know So Far about How COVID Affects the Nervous System 22 Oct 2020
When a Feather-Light Touch Is Agony 16 Oct 2018
Why the Pain Drug That Killed Prince Can be Especially Dangerous 6 June 2016
Why We Itch 1 May 2016
Scientific American MIND
Treating Pain without Pills Feature May 2017
How Yoga Changes the Brain Head Lines March 2014
A Spritz That Prevents PTSD Head Lines January 2014
Can Caresses Protect the Brain from Stroke? Feature July 2013
Specific Neurons Respond to Massage Head Lines May 2013
Blunting Pain with Magnets Head Lines March 2013
How Chronic Pain Affects Memory and Mood Head Lines September 2012
Brain Trick Relieves Pain Head Lines May 2012
How Exercise Jogs the Brain Head Lines March 2012
New Scientist
What is Pain? How Do You Treat Pain?
19 November 2022
Why some itches can’t be scratched – and how to combat them … 23 November 2016
“Stephani Sutherland has a terrific record of communicating science to the public, particularly the biology of pain. She has a wide following in the community of chronic pain sufferers and outstanding credibility among pain neuroscientists.”