Abstract Objective and Method: Research on emotion and pain has burgeoned. We review
the last decade's literature, focusing on links between emotional processes and persistent …

Epidemiological studies have provided evidence that traffic noise exposure is linked to
cardiovascular diseases such as arterial hypertension, myocardial infarction, and stroke …

The importance of the modulation of pain by emotion is now widely recognised. In particular,
stress and anxiety, depending on their nature, duration and intensity, can exert potent, but …

The transition from acute to chronic pain states might be the most important challenge in
research to improve clinical treatment of debilitating pain. We describe a recently identified …

Dysregulation of pain neurocircuitry and neurochemistry has been increasingly recognized
as playing a critical role in a diverse spectrum of diseases including migraine, fibromyalgia …

Chronic alcohol consumption produces painful peripheral neuropathy for which there is no
reliable successful therapy, mainly due to lack of understanding of its pathobiology …

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a complex syndrome, with an indefinite aetiology and intricate
pathophysiology that affects 2–3% of the world population. From the beginning of the 2000s …

Progresses in the understanding of human brain‐gut interactions in health and disease
have been limited by the lack of non‐invasive techniques to study brain activity. The advent …

Stress dramatically exacerbates pain in diseases such as fibromyalgia and rheumatoid
arthritis, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. We tested the hypothesis that stress …

Whereas acute stress often results in analgesia, chronic stress can trigger
hyperalgesia/allodynia. This influence of long-term stress on nociception is relevant to …