A systematic literature review of 10 years of research on sex/gender and experimental pain perception–part 1: are there really differences between women and men?

M Racine, Y Tousignant-Laflamme, LA Kloda, D Dion… - Pain, 2012 - Elsevier
The purpose of this systematic review was to summarize and critically appraise the results of
10years of human laboratory research on pain and sex/gender. An electronic search …

[HTML][HTML] Sex, gender, and pain: a review of recent clinical and experimental findings

RB Fillingim, CD King, MC Ribeiro-Dasilva… - The journal of pain, 2009 - Elsevier
Sex-related influences on pain and analgesia have become a topic of tremendous scientific
and clinical interest, especially in the last 10 to 15 years. Members of our research group …

[HTML][HTML] The PhysIO toolbox for modeling physiological noise in fMRI data

L Kasper, S Bollmann, AO Diaconescu, C Hutton… - Journal of neuroscience …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Physiological noise is one of the major confounds for fMRI. A common class of
correction methods model noise from peripheral measures, such as ECGs or pneumatic …

Assessing pain objectively: the use of physiological markers

R Cowen, MK Stasiowska, H Laycock, C Bantel - Anaesthesia, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Pain diagnosis and management would benefit from the development of objective markers
of nociception and pain. Current research addressing this issue has focused on five main …

A systematic literature review of 10 years of research on sex/gender and pain perception–part 2: do biopsychosocial factors alter pain sensitivity differently in women …

M Racine, Y Tousignant-Laflamme, LA Kloda, D Dion… - Pain, 2012 - Elsevier
This systematic review summarizes the results of 10years of laboratory research on pain and
sex/gender. An electronic search strategy was designed by a medical librarian to access …

Pain outcomes: a brief review of instruments and techniques

J Younger, R McCue, S Mackey - Current pain and headache reports, 2009 - Springer
Pain is a difficult outcome to measure due to its multifaceted and subjective nature. The
need for selecting proper outcome measures is high because of the increasing demand for …

Heart rate variability and experimentally induced pain in healthy adults: a systematic review

J Koenig, MN Jarczok, RJ Ellis… - … Journal of Pain, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Background Reactivity of the autonomic nervous system to experimental pain stimuli has
been extensively studied using measures of heart rate and blood pressure. Heart rate …

[HTML][HTML] Physiological noise in brainstem FMRI

JCW Brooks, OK Faull, KTS Pattinson… - Frontiers in human …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
The brainstem is directly involved in controlling blood pressure, respiration, sleep/wake
cycles, pain modulation, motor, and cardiac output. As such it is of significant basic science …

Autonomic responses to heat pain: Heart rate, skin conductance, and their relation to verbal ratings and stimulus intensity

ML Loggia, M Juneau, CM Bushnell - Pain, 2011 - journals.lww.com
In human pain experiments, as well as in clinical settings, subjects are often asked to assess
pain using scales (eg, numeric rating scales). Although most subjects have little difficulty in …

Towards a physiology-based measure of pain: patterns of human brain activity distinguish painful from non-painful thermal stimulation

JE Brown, N Chatterjee, J Younger, S Mackey - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Pain often exists in the absence of observable injury; therefore, the gold standard for pain
assessment has long been self-report. Because the inability to verbally communicate can …