Pain

Papers
(The TQCC of Pain is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Translational control by general control nonderepressible 2 kinase regulates methylglyoxal-induced pain in mice165
Unrelieved pain and risk of opioid use disorder or overdose in older adults prescribed opioids114
Vaso-occlusive crisis pain intensity, frequency, and duration: which best correlates with health-related quality of life in adolescents and adults with sickle cell disease?93
Benign or painful? The interpretation of pain and fear of progression in rheumatoid arthritis88
Adenosine causes short-lasting vasodilation and headache but not migraine attacks in migraine patients: a randomized clinical trial87
On the adverse effects of gabapentinoids77
Personalised decision support in the management of patients with musculoskeletal pain in primary physiotherapy care: a cluster randomised controlled trial (the SupportPrim project)76
Gut microbiota dysbiosis alters chronic pain behaviors in a humanized transgenic mouse model of sickle cell disease75
Sex differences in facial expressions of pain: results from a combined sample70
Innovative cognitive behavioral therapies for irritable bowel syndrome: processes, predictors, platforms, and outcomes70
Description and initial validation of a novel measure of pain intensity: the Numeric Rating Scale of Underlying Pain without concurrent Analgesic use69
Improving the art and science of communication in people living with chronic pain66
Statistical modeling of acute and chronic pain patient-reported outcomes obtained from ecological momentary assessment66
Reply to dos Santos Ferreira and Velly63
Association between prescribed opioid dose and risk of motor vehicle crashes58
Future perspectives: the next fifty years of the International Association for the Study of Pain50
Reply to Currie et al.50
Validation of ICD-11 chronic pain severity specifiers for children and adolescents: an important step forward48
White matter microstructural associations with pain experiences in a large community sample of youth48
Painful distortions: people with painful knee osteoarthritis have biased visuospatial perception of the environment46
Episodic pain in Fabry disease is mediated by a heat shock protein-transient receptor potential cation channel A1 axis46
Autoantibodies in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome46
Subjective salience ratings are a reliable proxy for physiological measures of arousal45
The social nature of human pain44
Selective targeting of voltage-gated sodium channels to achieve analgesia: current status and future directions42
Childhood trauma and the use of opioids and other prescription analgesics in adolescence and young adulthood: The HUNT Study41
Chronic pain is specifically associated with updating working memory: a longitudinal twin study40
Pediatric chronic pain grading: a revised classification of the severity of pediatric chronic pain40
The future of pain research: neuromodulation and surgery39
Intrinsic and synaptic properties of adult mouse spinoperiaqueductal gray neurons and the influence of neonatal tissue damage38
Reply to Quintner37
Diagnostic accuracy of quantitative sensory testing for detecting small fiber impairment in polyneuropathy and diagnosing small fiber neuropathy37
Data-driven identification of distinct pain drawing patterns and their association with clinical and psychological factors: a study of 21,123 patients with spinal pain36
Sex differences in visceral sensitivity and brain activity in a rat model of comorbid pain: a longitudinal study36
Sex differences in pain expressed by patients across diverse disease states: individual patient data meta-analysis of 33,957 participants in 10 randomized controlled trials36
TRPA1 rare variants in chronic neuropathic and nociplastic pain patients35
Widespread hyperexcitability of nociceptor somata outlasts enhanced avoidance behavior after incision injury35
The impact of opioid withdrawal symptoms on pain outcomes in enriched enrollment randomized withdrawal trials: a mediation meta-analysis of trials submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration34
The contribution of baseline circulating endocannabinoids to individual differences in human pain sensitivity: a quantitative sensory testing study34
Application of neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging in characterizing brain microstructural changes in classical trigeminal neuralgia and a comparison between the left and right sides34
Neuropilin-1 is essential for vascular endothelial growth factor A–mediated increase of sensory neuron activity and development of pain-like behaviors34
Dyspareunia: a novel clinical approach for diagnosis based on pain mechanisms33
Can we improve patient outcomes through using evidence-based opioid deprescribing guidelines to reduce opioid use?33
How the next 50 years of positron emission tomography can transform our understanding of chronic pain33
Alzheimer disease may compromise patients' ability for expectancy-based pain modulation. Now what?33
Rejuvenation alleviates prolonged postsurgical pain in aging mice by mitigating inflammaging33
Paradoxical heat sensation as a manifestation of thermal hypesthesia: a study of 1090 patients with lesions of the somatosensory system: erratum33
Adjunctive virtual reality pain relief after traumatic injury: a proof-of-concept within-person randomized trial32
Region-specific changes in brain glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid across the migraine attack in children and adolescents32
Who develops chronic pain after an acute lower limb injury? A longitudinal study of children and adolescents32
The biopsychosocial model of pain 40 years on: time for a reappraisal?30
[11C]-PBR28 positron emission tomography signal as an imaging marker of joint inflammation in knee osteoarthritis30
Formation of perineuronal nets within a thalamocortical circuit shapes mechanical and thermal pain thresholds in mice with neuropathic pain30
Gaining a new footing on molecular mechanisms of neuropathic pain in patients30
The impact of chronic pain on brain gene expression30
Analgesia and peripheral c-fiber modulation by selective Nav1.8 inhibition in rhesus29
Multisite chronic pain as a causal risk factor for coronary artery disease: findings from Mendelian randomization29
Leveraging technologies to upskill primary care providers in person-centred pain care28
Astrocytogenic bidirectional plasticity at spinal nociceptive synapses regulates acute nociceptive processing28
Reply to Andrassy and Mukhdomi28
Forward and reverse engineering the pain system: from computational neuroscience to neuro-engineering28
Social support and the association between post-traumatic stress disorder and risk for long-term prescription opioid use27
Reliability of quantitative sensory testing in the assessment of somatosensory function after high-frequency stimulation–induced sensitisation of central nociceptive pathways27
Peripheral and central neurobiological effects of botulinum toxin A (BoNT/A) in neuropathic pain: a systematic review27
Incidence of chronic pelvic pain after childbirth and its causal association with C-section27
Social disparities in pain26
Opioid dose and pain effects of an online pain self-management program to augment usual care in adults with chronic pain: a multisite randomized clinical trial26
Educational needs and preferences of adult patients with acute pain: a mixed-methods systematic review26
Editorial Board26
Thermal grill–induced pain: further evidence for its pathophysiological and clinical relevance26
Increasing risk of cannabis use disorder among U.S. veterans with chronic pain: 2005-201925
Progression trajectories of chronic overlapping pain conditions unveiled across two large clinical data warehouses25
Efficacy and safety of eliapixant in diabetic neuropathic pain and prediction of placebo responders with an exploratory novel algorithm: results from the randomized controlled phase 2a PUCCINI study25
Association between physiotherapy utilization and medical healthcare utilization and costs in adults with back pain from Ontario, Canada: a population-based cohort study25
Prevalence and correlates of “undiagnosed pain”: evidence from the US national Medical Expenditure Panel Survey25
Transcranial direct current stimulation of primary motor cortex reduces thermal pain25
TRESK background potassium channel regulates MrgprA3+ pruriceptor excitability, acute and chronic itch24
Neuroendocrine mechanisms in oxaliplatin-induced hyperalgesic priming24
Effect modifiers of virtual reality in pain management: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis24
Social integration of adolescents with chronic pain: a social network analysis24
The thalamic projection of pain sensations to the posterior dorsal fundus in the insula: comment on Mandonnet et al.23
Open data sharing: what could possibly go wrong?23
ARMS/Kidins220 regulates nociception by controlling brain-derived neurotrophic factor secretion23
Reply to Chang, Gau, and Jhang23
Reply to Hoegh et al.22
Efficacy and safety of pharmacological, physical, and psychological interventions for the management of chronic pain in children: a WHO systematic review and meta-analysis: Erratum22
Beyond the ambiguity of interpretation bias for pain-related information22
Agreement between youth and caregiver report of pain and functioning in pediatric sickle cell disease: PedsQL sickle cell disease module22
Spinal mitochondrial-derived peroxynitrite enhances neuroimmune activation during morphine hyperalgesia and antinociceptive tolerance: Erratum22
Pain relief after topical capsaicin: does it result from nociceptor degeneration or regeneration?22
Pain's puzzle pieces: MAGI-1, NaV1.8, degradation, analgesia22
Inequities in time-to-follow-up care and administrative action after low back pain diagnosis in active duty service members22
Grpr expression defines a population of superficial dorsal horn vertical cells that have a role in both itch and pain21
Table of Contents21
ATF4 inhibits TRPV4 function and controls itch perception in rodents and nonhuman primates21
Assessing spontaneous sensory neuron activity using in vivo calcium imaging21
Genetic associations of neuropathic pain and sensory profile in a deeply phenotyped neuropathy cohort21
Moving beyond pain intensity as the primary outcome measure: the INTEGRATE pain framework and beyond21
Small nerve fibre pathology in non-neuropathic chronic pain conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis21
Interpretation bias and the transition from acute to chronic pain21
The use of quantitative sensory testing for personalized pain medicine in the age of AI21
Renaming burning mouth syndrome: implications and use for the Research Diagnostic Criteria for Burning Mouth Syndrome21
Salivary metabolome indicates a shift in tyrosine metabolism in patients with burning mouth syndrome: a prospective case–control study20
Inflammatory reactivity is unrelated to childhood adversity or provoked modulation of nociception20
A phenotypic screening platform for chronic pain therapeutics using all-optical electrophysiology20
Effects of commonly used analgesics on sleep architecture: a topical review20
Digging deeper into pain: an ethological behavior assay correlating well-being in mice with human pain experience20
Converging inputs compete at the lateral parabrachial nuclei to dictate the affective-motivational responses to cold pain20
Patient preferences in the treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain: a systematic review of discrete choice experiments20
Adding a nonpainful end to reduce pain recollection of Pap smear screening: a randomized controlled trial20
Abdominoplasty as an acute postoperative pain model: insights from 8 years of clinical trials20
Delphi study to define core clinical outcomes for inclusion in a complex regional pain syndrome international research registry and data bank20
The association between parent mental health and pediatric chronic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis19
Multi-omic integration with human dorsal root ganglia proteomics highlights TNFα signalling as a relevant sexually dimorphic pathway19
Microneurographic portrait of 19 patients with small fiber neuropathy: a pilot study19
Chronic pain in European adult populations: a systematic review of prevalence and associated clinical features19
Cannabis use disorder in patients with chronic pain: overestimation and underestimation in a cross-sectional observational study in 3 German pain management centres19
Spontaneous activity in pain patient stem cell–derived sensory neurons arises from one functional subclass19
Rostral ventral medulla circuits regulate both the sensory and affective dimensions of neuropathic pain: a commentary on Dogrul et al.18
Unraveling the puzzle of pain in pancreatic diseases18
“Belief-based” medicine is not evidence-based medicine18
Advances in the analysis of intensive longitudinal pain data: a commentary on Leroux et al.18
Informing about side effects: putting patients (preferences) first18
Psychosocial mechanisms underlying the transition from acute to chronic postsurgical pain in youth following spinal fusion: a 6-month longitudinal study18
Reply to Manhapra18
Quantitative somatosensory testing of the abdomen: establishing initial reference values across developmental age and biological sex18
Dose–response relationship and effect modifier of stabilisation exercises in nonspecific low back pain: a project-wide individual patient data re-analysis on 1483 intervention participants18
Chronic pain among U.S. sexual minority adults who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or “something else”: Erratum18
Demise of nociceptive Schwann cells causes nerve retraction and pain hyperalgesia: Erratum18
In memoriam: Stephen B. McMahon, PhD, FMedSci December 21, 1954 to October 9, 202118
Neuroinflammation drives sex-dependent effects on pain and negative affect in a murine model of repeated mild traumatic brain injury17
The Canadian version of the National Institutes of Health minimum dataset for chronic low back pain research: reference values from the Quebec Low Back Pain Study17
Functional coupling between peripheral nociceptor terminals in vivo is enhanced during acute inflammation17
Interoception and pain: body–mind integration, rupture, and repair17
Leveraging value-based health principles to improve translation and impact of digital psychological interventions for people with chronic pain17
Standardizing research methods for opioid dose comparison: the NIH HEAL morphine milligram equivalent calculator17
Internet-delivered cognitive and behavioural based interventions for adults with chronic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials17
A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of long-acting dexamethasone viscous gel delivered by transforaminal injection for lumbosacral radicular pain17
Amygdalar functional connectivity during resting and evoked pain in youth with functional abdominal pain disorders17
Mechanisms and manifestations in musculoskeletal pain: from experimental to clinical pain settings17
The associations of opioid and benzodiazepine prescriptions with injuries among US military service members17
Melatonin for neuropathic pain: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, crossover trial17
Effectiveness of neural mobilisation for the treatment of nerve-related cervicobrachial pain: a systematic review with subgroup meta-analysis17
Accuracy of neuropathic pain measurements in patients with symptoms of polyneuropathy: validation of painDETECT, Self-Completed Leeds Assessment of Neuropathic Symptoms and Signs, and Douleur Neuropat17
Biopsychosocial influence on shoulder pain: results from a randomized preclinical trial of exercise-induced muscle injury17
CARTp/GPR160 mediates behavioral hypersensitivities in mice through NOD217
Open-label nondeceptive placebo analgesia is blocked by the opioid antagonist naloxone17
Multimodal hypersensitivity and somatic symptoms predict adolescent postmenarchal widespread pain16
Prediction of the response to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the motor cortex in peripheral neuropathic pain and validation of a new algorithm16
Give and take: an evolutionary framework for social transactions in pain16
Resting-state electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography as biomarkers of chronic pain: a systematic review16
A paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus input to ventral of lateral septal nucleus controls chronic visceral pain16
Three dimensions of pain in osteoarthritis: development and validation of the Osteoarthritis Symptom Inventory Scale16
Estrous cycle regulates cephalic mechanical sensitivity and sensitization of the trigemino-cervical complex in a female rat model of chronic migraine16
Is there really no association between postoperative opioid use and long-term surgical outcomes in patients diagnosed with liver cancer?16
Perceiving pain alters body perception: the effects of acute pain on body image and sensory testing16
Deep learning–guided postoperative pain assessment in children16
Cutaneous nerve fiber and peripheral Nav1.7 assessment in a large cohort of patients with postherpetic neuralgia16
MicroRNA let-7b enhances spinal cord nociceptive synaptic transmission and induces acute and persistent pain through neuronal and microglial signaling16
Profiling the molecular signature of satellite glial cells at the single cell level reveals high similarities between rodents and humans15
TRPV1 is the burner15
Body image, sex, gender, and pain: towards an improved understanding of pain mechanisms15
The invisible cost of pain management by the current International Classification of Diseases coding system: a study in a tertiary care inpatient setting15
Neural mechanisms underlying the conditioned pain modulation response: a narrative review of neuroimaging studies15
Phenotypic characteristics of chronic pain and pain-related factors in gender minority persons: a cross-sectional study15
Huntington-associated protein 1 inhibition contributes to neuropathic pain by suppressing Cav1.2 activity and attenuating inflammation15
Bilateral deficiency of Meissner corpuscles and papillary microvessels in patients with acute complex regional pain syndrome15
The thermal grill elicits central sensitization15
Lumbar tactile acuity associated with S1-thalamic functional connectivity and S1 microstructure in patients with low back pain and pain-free controls15
Sympathetic modulation of tumor necrosis factor alpha-induced nociception in the presence of oral squamous cell carcinoma15
Upregulation of LncRNA71132 in the spinal cord regulates hypersensitivity in a rat model of bone cancer pain15
Educational disparities in joint pain within and across US states: do macro sociopolitical contexts matter?15
Reliability and validity of the Pediatric PainSCAN: a screening tool for pediatric neuropathic pain and complex regional pain syndrome15
Nucleus accumbens myocyte enhancer factor 2C mediates the maintenance of peripheral nerve injury–induced physiological and behavioral maladaptations15
Gonadal hormone–dependent nociceptor sensitization maintains nociplastic pain state in female mice15
CD304+ adipose tissue–derived mesenchymal stem cell abundance in autologous fat grafts highly correlates with improvement of localized pain syndromes15
A novel potential strategy for the treatment of inflammatory and neuropathic pain14
Clinical features and functional analysis of novel SCN9A variants causing congenital insensitivity to pain14
Effects of virtual reality on psychophysical measures of pain: superiority to imagination and nonimmersive conditions14
Bodily maps of emotions and pain: tactile and hedonic sensitivity in healthy controls and patients experiencing chronic pain14
Comparing the prevalence of chronic pain in school-aged children in the United States from 2019 to 2020: a nationally representative study examining differences associated with the COVID-19 pandemic: 14
Reply to Ali14
Unlocking the secrets of daily diary data: can we improve our understanding of the reinforcing effects of pain medication?14
Reply to Manhapra14
The local molecular signature of human peripheral neuropathic pain14
Reply to Zhang and Pan14
Predictors of response to full agonist opioids in enriched enrollment randomized withdrawal clinical trials: a participant-level data meta-analysis14
Reply to Moulton et al.14
Where is the pain? Spatial patterns of pain co-occurrence in a population-based study of 4833 pain drawings incorporating network analysis14
Thermal grill illusion of pain in patients with chronic pain: a clinical marker of central sensitization?14
Parental narrative style moderates the relation between pain-related attention and memory biases in youth with chronic pain14
Introduction to the biennial review of pain14
Enhancing healthcare professionals' biopsychosocial perspective to chronic pain: assessing the impact of implementing an interdisciplinary training program13
Educational initiatives and achievements of the International Association for the Study of Pain13
Recommendations for patient education in the management of persistent pelvic pain: a systematic review of clinical practice guidelines13
Patient engagement in pain research: no gain without the people in pain13
Advancing understanding of opioid mortality risks beyond initial findings in noncancer pain patients13
Mast cell chymases: essential for preventing the transition from acute to chronic pain13
Nociplastic pain—grading the unknown13
Nonopioid analgesics discovery and the Valley of Death: EMA401 from concept to clinical trial13
The “External Validity Crisis”: now is the time to address the attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion in pain science13
Co-occurrence of chronic pain and anxiety/depression symptoms in U.S. adults: prevalence, functional impacts, and opportunities13
A randomized-controlled pilot trial of telemedicine-delivered cognitive-behavioral therapy tailored for interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome13
Mirror peripheral neuropathy and unilateral chronic neuropathic pain: insights from asymmetric neurological patterns in leprosy13
Epigenomic landscape of the human dorsal root ganglion: sex differences and transcriptional regulation of nociceptive genes13
Contribution of S1pr1-featured astrocyte subpopulation to cisplatin-induced neuropathic pain in male mice13
A call to action to integrate best practice assessment of sexual orientation and gender identity in pain research and clinical care13
Functioning in chronic pain: a call for a global definition13
Characterizing high-cost healthcare users among adults with back pain in Ontario, Canada: a population-based cohort study13
Functional and anatomical analyses of active spinal circuits in a mouse model of chronic pain13
Clinical improvements due to specific effects and placebo effects in conservative interventions and changes observed with no treatment in randomized controlled trials of patients with chronic nonspeci12
Referred sensations in the orofacial region are associated with a decreased descending pain inhibition and modulated by remote noxious stimuli and local anesthesia12
Descending mechanism by which medial prefrontal cortex endocannabinoid signaling controls the development of neuropathic pain and neuronal activity of dorsal root ganglion12
Selection of corticosteroids for epidural steroid injections12
Reply to Blomqvist and Evrard12
Editorial Board12
A catheter-associated urinary tract infection mouse model to study bladder dysfunction and pain12
Expectations underlie the effects of unpredictable pain: a behavioral and electroencephalogram study12
Haves and have-nots: socioeconomic position improves accuracy of machine learning algorithms for predicting high-impact chronic pain12
The bidirectional relationship between sleep problems and chronic musculoskeletal pain: a systematic review with meta-analysis12
CaV3.2 calcium channels contribute to trigeminal neuralgia12
Dorsal horn volume loss and pain pathway changes in Cavalier King Charles Spaniels with syringomyelia, signs of pain, and phantom scratching12
Behavioral cancer pain intervention dosing: results of a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial12
Reply to Esposto and Cioeta (2023): Clarification regarding classical conditioning and conditioned pain12
Reply to Karlsen et al. Consensus on a core outcome set: a panel decision12
Deciphering relationships between stress biomarkers and fibromyalgia syndrome with implications relevant to other chronic pain conditions12
Peripheral contributions to offset analgesia: effects of stimulus duration, intensity, and location12
TRPM3 as a novel target to alleviate acute oxaliplatin-induced peripheral neuropathic pain12
Do “central sensitization” questionnaires reflect measures of nociceptive sensitization or psychological constructs? A systematic review and meta-analyses12
A double-blind phase II randomized controlled trial of an online cognitive bias modification for interpretation program with and without psychoeducation for people with chronic pain12
Serum levels of endocannabinoids and related lipids in painful vs painless diabetic neuropathy: results from the Pain in Neuropathy Study12
Sleep disruption and activation of cellular inflammation mediate heightened pain sensitivity: a randomized clinical trial12
Is blue light a red herring in a rodent model of “computer vision syndrome”?12
Intrathecal administration of the Nav1.7 inhibitor PF-05089771 produces rapid and side-effect-free analgesia in mice12
Duloxetine improves chronic orofacial pain and comorbid depressive symptoms in association with reduction of serotonin transporter protein through upregulation of ubiquitinated serotonin transporter p12
Immunotherapy, a new approach for the treatment of human pain12
From SARS-CoV-2 to analgesia: harnessing the vascular endothelial growth factor A/neuropilin 1 axis for pain therapy12
Brain predicted age in chronic pelvic pain: a study by the Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain Research Network12
Unbiased analysis of the dorsal root ganglion after peripheral nerve injury: no neuronal loss, no gliosis, but satellite glial cell plasticity12
miR-1306-3p directly activates P2X3 receptors in primary sensory neurons to induce visceral pain in rats12
Potentiation of visualized exosomal miR-1306-3p from primary sensory neurons contributes to chronic visceral pain via spinal P2X3 receptors12
Elevated 18:0 lysophosphatidylcholine contributes to the development of pain in tissue injury12
New kid on the block: hemorphins in sickle cell disease11
Mechanisms of chronic pain in inflammatory rheumatism: the role of descending modulation11
The pelvic pain bias assessment: a new assessment of interpretation bias specific to pelvic pain11
Tools for assessing labour pain: a comprehensive review of research literature11
Effect of prolonged experimental neck pain on exercise-induced hypoalgesia11
High-frequency electrical stimulation increases cortical excitability and mechanical sensitivity in a chronic large animal model11
The role of corticolimbic perineuronal nets in mice with chronic neuropathic pain11
Rare variant analyses in large-scale cohorts identified SLC13A1 associated with chronic pain11
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