Qualitative sex differences in pain processing: emerging evidence of a biased literature

JS Mogil - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Although most patients with chronic pain are women, the preclinical literature regarding pain
processing and the pathophysiology of chronic pain has historically been derived …

Delivering transformative action in paediatric pain: a Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Commission

C Eccleston, E Fisher, RF Howard, R Slater… - The Lancet Child & …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Every infant, child, and adolescent will experience pain at times
throughout their life. Childhood pain ranges from acute to chronic, and includes procedural …

Why and how to account for sex and gender in brain and behavioral research

L Eliot, AK Beery, EG Jacobs, HF LeBlanc… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Long overlooked in neuroscience research, sex and gender are increasingly included as
key variables potentially impacting all levels of neurobehavioral analysis. Still, many …

[HTML][HTML] Painful and painless diabetic neuropathies: what is the difference?

P Shillo, G Sloan, M Greig, L Hunt, D Selvarajah… - Current diabetes …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The prevalence of diabetes mellitus and its chronic
complications are increasing to epidemic proportions. This will unfortunately result in …

[HTML][HTML] A brief overview: sex differences in prevalent chronic musculoskeletal conditions

DS Overstreet, LJ Strath, M Jordan, IA Jordan… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Musculoskeletal (MSK) pain disorders are some of the most prevalent and disabling chronic
pain conditions worldwide. These chronic conditions have a considerable impact on the …

Sources of individual differences in pain

JS Mogil - Annual Review of Neuroscience, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Pain is an immense clinical and societal challenge, and the key to understanding and
treating it is variability. Robust interindividual differences are consistently observed in pain …

Could epigenetics help explain racial disparities in chronic pain?

EN Aroke, PV Joseph, A Roy, DS Overstreet… - Journal of pain …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
African Americans disproportionately suffer more severe and debilitating morbidity from
chronic pain than do non-Hispanic Whites. These differences may arise from differential …

A systematic review of race, sex, and socioeconomic status differences in postoperative pain and pain management

KL Thurston, SJ Zhang, BA Wilbanks, R Billings… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose Optimal postoperative pain management remains a significant problem despite the
availability of multiple preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative pain management …

Featured article: gender bias in pediatric pain assessment

BD Earp, JT Monrad, M LaFrance… - Journal of Pediatric …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Objective Accurate assessment of pain is central to diagnosis and treatment in healthcare,
especially in pediatrics. However, few studies have examined potential biases in adult …

[HTML][HTML] Reprogramming the topology of the nociceptive circuit in C. elegans reshapes sexual behavior

V Pechuk, G Goldman, Y Salzberg, AH Chaubey… - Current biology, 2022 - cell.com
The effect of the detailed connectivity of a neural circuit on its function and the resulting
behavior of the organism is a key question in many neural systems. Here, we study the …