OBJECTIVE: The goal of the present study is to systematically review the scientific literature
addressing central sensitization and central nociceptive processing in patients with …

Introduction Optimal management of provoked vestibulodynia (PVD), thought to be the most
common form of chronic dyspareunia, is unclear. Aim To integrate recent brain data on …

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory disease of synovial joints, and pain is the
predominant problem for people with RA. Pain in RA is distressing in its own right and …

Tinnitus is the continuous perception of an internal auditory stimulus. This permanent sound
often affects a person's emotional state inducing distress and depressive feelings changes …

A large number of studies have provided evidence for the efficacy of psychological and other
non-pharmacological interventions in the treatment of chronic pain. While these methods are …

Angina pectoris is important because of its association with heart disease and risk of death.
Historically after Heberden's account of angina in 1772, the association of pain with …

Rheumatic pain and, in particular, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia, are
common and debilitating chronic pain syndromes. Recently, human functional …

Introduction We assessed sex differences in behavioural and neural responses to rectal
pain stimuli in healthy subjects. Methods In age‐and body mass index‐matched healthy …

Neurobiological research is increasingly documenting the role of higher brain areas in
cough, but little systematic behavioral research on the role of psychological factors exists. In …

The observation that cognitive factors such as beliefs and expectations not only modulate
the perception of pain, but also the therapeutic benefit and adverse effects of any …