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 …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning intervention for health care challenges: some biomedical domain considerations

I Tobore, J Li, L Yuhang, Y Al-Handarish… - JMIR mHealth and …, 2019 - mhealth.jmir.org
The use of deep learning (DL) for the analysis and diagnosis of biomedical and health care
problems has received unprecedented attention in the last decade. The technique has …

A neuroimaging biomarker for sustained experimental and clinical pain

JJ Lee, HJ Kim, M Čeko, B Park, SA Lee, H Park… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Sustained pain is a major characteristic of clinical pain disorders, but it is difficult to assess in
isolation from co-occurring cognitive and emotional features in patients. In this study, we …

Toward a unified framework for interpreting machine-learning models in neuroimaging

L Kohoutová, J Heo, S Cha, S Lee, T Moon… - Nature protocols, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning is a powerful tool for creating computational models relating brain
function to behavior, and its use is becoming widespread in neuroscience. However, these …

Neuroimaging-based biomarkers for pain: state of the field and current directions

MM Van Der Miesen, MA Lindquist, TD Wager - Pain reports, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Chronic pain is an endemic problem involving both peripheral and brain pathophysiology.
Although biomarkers have revolutionized many areas of medicine, biomarkers for pain have …

[HTML][HTML] Pain: a precision signal for reinforcement learning and control

B Seymour - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Since noxious stimulation usually leads to the perception of pain, pain has traditionally been
considered sensory nociception. But its variability and sensitivity to a broad array of …

Brain dysfunction in chronic pain patients assessed by resting-state electroencephalography

ST Dinh, MM Nickel, L Tiemann, ES May, H Heitmann… - Pain, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Chronic pain is a common and severely disabling disease whose treatment is often
unsatisfactory. Insights into the brain mechanisms of chronic pain promise to advance the …

Reorganization of functional brain network architecture in chronic osteoarthritis pain

J Barroso, K Wakaizumi, AM Reis, M Baliki… - Human Brain …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Osteoarthritis (OA) manifests with chronic pain, motor impairment, and proprioceptive
changes. However, the role of the brain in the disease is largely unknown. Here, we studied …

NIRS measures in pain and analgesia: fundamentals, features, and function

KD Karunakaran, K Peng, D Berry, S Green… - Neuroscience & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Current pain assessment techniques based only on clinical evaluation and self-reports are
not objective and may lead to inadequate treatment. Having a functional biomarker will add …

Differential expression of a brain aging biomarker across discrete chronic pain disorders

PSP Hung, JY Zhang, A Noorani, MR Walker, M Huang… - Pain, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Chronic pain has widespread, detrimental effects on the human nervous system and its
prevalence and burden increase with age. Machine learning techniques have been applied …