Opioids are the oldest and most potent drugs for the treatment of severe pain. Their clinical
application is undisputed in acute pain (eg associated with trauma or surgery) but their long …

Chronic migraine is a disabling condition which affects a considerable proportion of patients.
Several risk factors and lifestyle habits contribute to the transformation of migraine into a …

A number of cortical regions are involved in processing pain-related information. The SI and
SII somatosensory cortices process mainly sensory discriminative attributes but also play an …

Perceptual skills can be improved even in adulthood, but this learning seldom occurs by
stimulus exposure alone. Instead, it requires considerable practice performing a perceptual …

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate short and long-term treatment outcome of children (7–10 years)
in comparison to adolescents (11–18 years) with disabling chronic pain following …

Previous studies reported that respiratory feedback (RFB) aids in alleviating chronic pain.
However, to date, this adjunct treatment has not been rigorously tested against non …

Chronische und rezidivierende Schmerzen im Kindes-und Jugendalter stellen ein
zunehmendes gesellschaftliches Gesundheitsproblem dar [9, 38]. Die psychosozialen …

The understanding of cortical pain processing in humans has significantly improved since
the development of modern neuroimaging techniques. Non-invasive electrophysiological …

Regarding awareness as a consistent concept has contributed to the controversy about
implicit learning. The present study emphasized the importance of distinguishing aspects of …

Background A multidimensional assessment of chronic pain is the most important tool for
diagnosis and treatment. While the German Pain Questionnaire is routinely implemented in …