Discovery and validation of biomarkers to aid the development of safe and effective pain therapeutics: challenges and opportunities

KD Davis, N Aghaeepour, AH Ahn, MS Angst… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Pain medication plays an important role in the treatment of acute and chronic pain
conditions, but some drugs, opioids in particular, have been overprescribed or prescribed …

A primer on motion capture with deep learning: principles, pitfalls, and perspectives

A Mathis, S Schneider, J Lauer, MW Mathis - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Extracting behavioral measurements non-invasively from video is stymied by the fact that it is
a hard computational problem. Recent advances in deep learning have tremendously …

Placebos in chronic pain: evidence, theory, ethics, and use in clinical practice

TJ Kaptchuk, CC Hemond, FG Miller - bmj, 2020 - bmj.com
Despite their ubiquitous presence, placebos and placebo effects retain an ambiguous and
unsettling presence in biomedicine. Specifically focused on chronic pain, this review …

Resting-state electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography as biomarkers of chronic pain: a systematic review

PT Zebhauser, VD Hohn, M Ploner - Pain, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Reliable and objective biomarkers promise to improve the assessment and treatment of
chronic pain. Resting-state electroencephalography (EEG) is broadly available, easy to use …

Distinct thalamocortical circuits underlie allodynia induced by tissue injury and by depression-like states

X Zhu, HD Tang, WY Dong, F Kang, A Liu, Y Mao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In humans, tissue injury and depression can both cause pain hypersensitivity, but whether
this involves distinct circuits remains unknown. Here, we identify two discrete glutamatergic …

Methods to discriminate between mechanism-based categories of pain experienced in the musculoskeletal system: a systematic review

MA Shraim, H Massé-Alarie, PW Hodges - Pain, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Mechanism-based classification of pain has been advocated widely to aid tailoring of
interventions for individuals experiencing persistent musculoskeletal pain. Three pain …

Maximizing treatment efficacy through patient stratification in neuropathic pain trials

R Baron, AH Dickenson, M Calvo, SD Dib-Hajj… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Treatment of neuropathic pain remains inadequate despite the elucidation of
multiple pathophysiological mechanisms and the development of promising therapeutic …

Pain-free resting-state functional brain connectivity predicts individual pain sensitivity

T Spisak, B Kincses, F Schlitt, M Zunhammer… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Individual differences in pain perception are of interest in basic and clinical research as
altered pain sensitivity is both a characteristic and a risk factor for many pain conditions. It is …

Systematic review and synthesis of mechanism-based classification systems for pain experienced in the musculoskeletal system

MA Shraim, H Masse-Alarie, LM Hall… - The Clinical journal of …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Improvements in pain management might be achieved by matching treatment to
underlying mechanisms for pain persistence. Many authors argue for a mechanism-based …

Human cells and networks of pain: Transforming pain target identification and therapeutic development

W Renthal, A Chamessian, M Curatolo, S Davidson… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Chronic pain is a disabling disease with limited treatment options. While animal models
have revealed important aspects of pain neurobiology, therapeutic translation of this …