Objective: Pain is one of the most common reasons for an individual to consult their primary
care physician, with most chronic pain being treated in the primary care setting. However …

As an indirect approach to relate previously identified sensory phenotypes of patients
suffering from peripheral neuropathic pain to underlying mechanisms, we used a published …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder, which affects 1 in 44
children and may cause severe disabilities. Besides socio-communicational difficulties and …

Background Conditioned pain modulation (CPM) methods are experimental procedures to
assess presumed descending nociceptive modulatory pathways. Various CPM‐methods are …

Background Studies assessing athletes' pain sensitivity yield inconsistent data, which
demonstrate either increased pain threshold and tolerance in athletes than controls or …

Objectives Central poststroke pain (CPSP), a neuropathic pain condition, is difficult to treat.
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) targeted to the primary motor cortex (M1) …

Descending pain inhibition is a key component of physiological and pathological pain
processing. 70 Various neurotransmitter systems underlie different descending pain …

Objective To determine the absolute and relative intra-rater within-session test-retest
reliability of pressure pain threshold (PPT) and mechanical temporal summation of pain …

Before the discovery of the endogenous opioid system in the 1970s, opioids were
understood only through the lens of opioid drug effects. Opium produced sleep, pain relief …

Background Although evidence has indicated a positive effect of transcranial direct current
stimulation (tDCS) on reducing pain, few studies have focused on the elderly population with …