The first years of Parkinson disease (PD) treatment are marked by good and sustained
responses to dopaminergic therapy. With disease progression and longer exposure to …

Recent insights have demonstrated a central role for dopaminergic neurotransmission in
modulating pain perception and natural analgesia within supraspinal regions, including the …

Fibromyalgia is characterized by chronic widespread pain and bodily tenderness and is
often accompanied by affective disturbances. Accumulating evidence indicates that …

Dopamine plays an important role in fear and anxiety modulating a cortical brake that the
medial prefrontal cortex exerts on the anxiogenic output of the amygdala and have an …

Patients suffering from Parkinson's disease (PD) frequently experienced painful sensations
that could be in part due to central modification of nociception. We compared pain threshold …

In addition to its involvement in motor control and in encoding reward value, increasing
evidence also implicates basal ganglia dopaminergic mechanisms in responses to stress …

Background: Pain is common in patients with Parkinson disease (PD) and can precede the
diagnosis of the disease. Experimental studies and clinical evidence indicate involvement of …

Animal studies have indicated that the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system is involved in
central pain modulation. In a recent positron emission tomography (PET) study, we …

Back pain is common in the general population, but only a subgroup of back pain patients
develops a disabling chronic pain state. The reasons for this are incompletely understood …

Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is a chronic oro‐facial pain disorder of unknown cause. It is
more common in peri‐and post‐menopausal women, and sex hormone dysregulation is …