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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Data-driven identification of distinct pain drawing patterns and their association with clinical and psychological factors: a study of 21,123 patients with spinal pain231
Translational control by general control nonderepressible 2 kinase regulates methylglyoxal-induced pain in mice145
Unrelieved pain and risk of opioid use disorder or overdose in older adults prescribed opioids107
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?90
Benign or painful? The interpretation of pain and fear of progression in rheumatoid arthritis82
Adenosine causes short-lasting vasodilation and headache but not migraine attacks in migraine patients: a randomized clinical trial81
On the adverse effects of gabapentinoids77
The future of pain research: neuromodulation and surgery75
Sex differences in pain expressed by patients across diverse disease states: individual patient data meta-analysis of 33,957 participants in 10 randomized controlled trials74
Personalised decision support in the management of patients with musculoskeletal pain in primary physiotherapy care: a cluster randomised controlled trial (the SupportPrim project)72
Gut microbiota dysbiosis alters chronic pain behaviors in a humanized transgenic mouse model of sickle cell disease70
Innovative cognitive behavioral therapies for irritable bowel syndrome: processes, predictors, platforms, and outcomes68
Diagnostic accuracy of quantitative sensory testing for detecting small fiber impairment in polyneuropathy and diagnosing small fiber neuropathy68
Intrinsic and synaptic properties of adult mouse spinoperiaqueductal gray neurons and the influence of neonatal tissue damage64
TRPA1 rare variants in chronic neuropathic and nociplastic pain patients64
Improving the art and science of communication in people living with chronic pain60
Reply to dos Santos Ferreira and Velly55
Reply to Quintner49
Association between prescribed opioid dose and risk of motor vehicle crashes49
Future perspectives: the next fifty years of the International Association for the Study of Pain46
White matter microstructural associations with pain experiences in a large community sample of youth46
Reply to Currie et al.46
Validation of ICD-11 chronic pain severity specifiers for children and adolescents: an important step forward45
Painful distortions: people with painful knee osteoarthritis have biased visuospatial perception of the environment43
Autoantibodies in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome42
Episodic pain in Fabry disease is mediated by a heat shock protein-transient receptor potential cation channel A1 axis42
Widespread hyperexcitability of nociceptor somata outlasts enhanced avoidance behavior after incision injury41
The social nature of human pain39
Subjective salience ratings are a reliable proxy for physiological measures of arousal39
Chronic pain is specifically associated with updating working memory: a longitudinal twin study38
Selective targeting of voltage-gated sodium channels to achieve analgesia: current status and future directions38
Childhood trauma and the use of opioids and other prescription analgesics in adolescence and young adulthood: The HUNT Study38
Sex differences in facial expressions of pain: results from a combined sample37
Description and initial validation of a novel measure of pain intensity: the Numeric Rating Scale of Underlying Pain without concurrent Analgesic use36
Pediatric chronic pain grading: a revised classification of the severity of pediatric chronic pain36
Sex differences in visceral sensitivity and brain activity in a rat model of comorbid pain: a longitudinal study35
Neuropilin-1 is essential for vascular endothelial growth factor A–mediated increase of sensory neuron activity and development of pain-like behaviors35
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
Association between physiotherapy utilization and medical healthcare utilization and costs in adults with back pain from Ontario, Canada: a population-based cohort study34
The contribution of baseline circulating endocannabinoids to individual differences in human pain sensitivity: a quantitative sensory testing study34
Can we improve patient outcomes through using evidence-based opioid deprescribing guidelines to reduce opioid use?34
Statistical modeling of acute and chronic pain patient-reported outcomes obtained from ecological momentary assessment34
Paradoxical heat sensation as a manifestation of thermal hypesthesia: a study of 1090 patients with lesions of the somatosensory system: erratum33
Dyspareunia: a novel clinical approach for diagnosis based on pain mechanisms33
Alzheimer disease may compromise patients' ability for expectancy-based pain modulation. Now what?33
Prevalence and correlates of “undiagnosed pain”—Evidence from the US national Medical Expenditure Panel Survey33
Analgesia and peripheral c-fiber modulation by selective Nav1.8 inhibition in rhesus32
Multisite chronic pain as a causal risk factor for coronary artery disease: findings from Mendelian randomization32
Gaining a new footing on molecular mechanisms of neuropathic pain in patients32
Leveraging technologies to upskill primary care providers in person-centred pain care31
Astrocytogenic bidirectional plasticity at spinal nociceptive synapses regulates acute nociceptive processing31
Forward and reverse engineering the pain system: from computational neuroscience to neuro-engineering31
Reply to Andrassy and Mukhdomi31
Peripheral and central neurobiological effects of botulinum toxin A (BoNT/A) in neuropathic pain: a systematic review30
Social support and the association between post-traumatic stress disorder and risk for long-term prescription opioid use30
Rejuvenation alleviates prolonged postsurgical pain in aging mice by mitigating inflammaging30
Who develops chronic pain after an acute lower limb injury? A longitudinal study of children and adolescents29
Editorial Board29
Educational needs and preferences of adult patients with acute pain: a mixed-methods systematic review28
Formation of perineuronal nets within a thalamocortical circuit shapes mechanical and thermal pain thresholds in mice with neuropathic pain28
Thermal grill–induced pain: further evidence for its pathophysiological and clinical relevance28
Social disparities in pain28
Progression trajectories of chronic overlapping pain conditions unveiled across two large clinical data warehouses27
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 trial27
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 study27
Incidence of chronic pelvic pain after childbirth and its causal association with C-section26
The impact of chronic pain on brain gene expression26
[11C]-PBR28 positron emission tomography signal as an imaging marker of joint inflammation in knee osteoarthritis26
TRESK background potassium channel regulates MrgprA3+ pruriceptor excitability, acute and chronic itch26
Region-specific changes in brain glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid across the migraine attack in children and adolescents26
Adjunctive virtual reality pain relief after traumatic injury: a proof-of-concept within-person randomized trial26
How the next 50 years of positron emission tomography can transform our understanding of chronic pain25
Reliability of quantitative sensory testing in the assessment of somatosensory function after high-frequency stimulation–induced sensitisation of central nociceptive pathways25
Social integration of adolescents with chronic pain: a social network analysis25
Increasing risk of cannabis use disorder among U.S. veterans with chronic pain: 2005-201925
The biopsychosocial model of pain 40 years on: time for a reappraisal?25
Open data sharing: what could possibly go wrong?24
Neuroendocrine mechanisms in oxaliplatin-induced hyperalgesic priming24
Reply to Chang, Gau, and Jhang24
Effect modifiers of virtual reality in pain management: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis24
Multi-omic integration with human dorsal root ganglia proteomics highlights TNFα signalling as a relevant sexually dimorphic pathway24
Microneurographic portrait of 19 patients with small fiber neuropathy: a pilot study23
Efficacy and safety of pharmacological, physical, and psychological interventions for the management of chronic pain in children: a WHO systematic review and meta-analysis: Erratum23
ARMS/Kidins220 regulates nociception by controlling brain-derived neurotrophic factor secretion23
Pain's puzzle pieces: MAGI-1, NaV1.8, degradation, analgesia23
The thalamic projection of pain sensations to the posterior dorsal fundus in the insula: comment on Mandonnet et al.23
Reply to Hoegh et al.22
Inequities in time-to-follow-up care and administrative action after low back pain diagnosis in active duty service members22
Pain relief after topical capsaicin: does it result from nociceptor degeneration or regeneration?22
Spinal mitochondrial-derived peroxynitrite enhances neuroimmune activation during morphine hyperalgesia and antinociceptive tolerance: Erratum22
Interpretation bias and the transition from acute to chronic pain22
A syngeneic inoculation mouse model of endometriosis that develops multiple comorbid visceral and cutaneous pain like behaviours22
Beyond the ambiguity of interpretation bias for pain-related information22
Table of Contents21
Moving beyond pain intensity as the primary outcome measure: the INTEGRATE pain framework and beyond21
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 participants21
The use of quantitative sensory testing for personalized pain medicine in the age of AI21
Agreement between youth and caregiver report of pain and functioning in pediatric sickle cell disease: PedsQL sickle cell disease module21
Delphi study to define core clinical outcomes for inclusion in a complex regional pain syndrome international research registry and data bank20
Adding a nonpainful end to reduce pain recollection of Pap smear screening: a randomized controlled trial20
Patient preferences in the treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain: a systematic review of discrete choice experiments20
Renaming burning mouth syndrome: implications and use for the Research Diagnostic Criteria for Burning Mouth Syndrome20
Effects of commonly used analgesics on sleep architecture: a topical review20
Salivary metabolome indicates a shift in tyrosine metabolism in patients with burning mouth syndrome: a prospective case–control study20
ATF4 inhibits TRPV4 function and controls itch perception in rodents and nonhuman primates20
Small nerve fibre pathology in non-neuropathic chronic pain conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis20
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 pain19
Assessing spontaneous sensory neuron activity using in vivo calcium imaging19
Grpr expression defines a population of superficial dorsal horn vertical cells that have a role in both itch and pain19
A phenotypic screening platform for chronic pain therapeutics using all-optical electrophysiology19
Abdominoplasty as an acute postoperative pain model: insights from 8 years of clinical trials19
The association between parent mental health and pediatric chronic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis19
Rostral ventral medulla circuits regulate both the sensory and affective dimensions of neuropathic pain: a commentary on Dogrul et al.19
Inflammatory reactivity is unrelated to childhood adversity or provoked modulation of nociception19
Genetic associations of neuropathic pain and sensory profile in a deeply phenotyped neuropathy cohort19
Cannabis use disorder in patients with chronic pain: overestimation and underestimation in a cross-sectional observational study in 3 German pain management centres19
Chronic pain in European adult populations: a systematic review of prevalence and associated clinical features19
Informing about side effects: putting patients (preferences) first18
Unraveling the puzzle of pain in pancreatic diseases18
Demise of nociceptive Schwann cells causes nerve retraction and pain hyperalgesia: Erratum18
Quantitative somatosensory testing of the abdomen: establishing initial reference values across developmental age and biological sex18
Chronic pain among U.S. sexual minority adults who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or “something else”: Erratum18
Psychosocial mechanisms underlying the transition from acute to chronic postsurgical pain in youth following spinal fusion: a 6-month longitudinal study18
Reply to Manhapra18
CD304+ adipose tissue–derived mesenchymal stem cell abundance in autologous fat grafts highly correlates with improvement of localized pain syndromes18
A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of long-acting dexamethasone viscous gel delivered by transforaminal injection for lumbosacral radicular pain18
“Belief-based” medicine is not evidence-based medicine18
Is there really no association between postoperative opioid use and long-term surgical outcomes in patients diagnosed with liver cancer?18
Upregulation of LncRNA71132 in the spinal cord regulates hypersensitivity in a rat model of bone cancer pain17
Conotoxin contulakin-G engages a neurotensin receptor 2/R-type calcium channel (Cav2.3) pathway to mediate spinal antinociception17
Neuroinflammation drives sex-dependent effects on pain and negative affect in a murine model of repeated mild traumatic brain injury17
Leveraging value-based health principles to improve translation and impact of digital psychological interventions for people with chronic pain17
Multimodal hypersensitivity and somatic symptoms predict adolescent postmenarchal widespread pain17
Resting-state electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography as biomarkers of chronic pain: a systematic review17
Interoception and pain: body–mind integration, rupture, and repair17
In memoriam: Stephen B. McMahon, PhD, FMedSci December 21, 1954 to October 9, 202117
Perceiving pain alters body perception: the effects of acute pain on body image and sensory testing17
CARTp/GPR160 mediates behavioral hypersensitivities in mice through NOD217
Cutaneous nerve fiber and peripheral Nav1.7 assessment in a large cohort of patients with postherpetic neuralgia17
Advances in the analysis of intensive longitudinal pain data: a commentary on Leroux et al.17
MicroRNA let-7b enhances spinal cord nociceptive synaptic transmission and induces acute and persistent pain through neuronal and microglial signaling16
Melatonin for neuropathic pain: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, crossover trial16
Educational disparities in joint pain within and across US states: do macro sociopolitical contexts matter?16
Chronic pain in the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases: users' questions answered16
Deep learning–guided postoperative pain assessment in children16
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
Effectiveness of neural mobilisation for the treatment of nerve-related cervicobrachial pain: a systematic review with subgroup meta-analysis16
Estrous cycle regulates cephalic mechanical sensitivity and sensitization of the trigemino-cervical complex in a female rat model of chronic migraine16
Open-label nondeceptive placebo analgesia is blocked by the opioid antagonist naloxone16
Amygdalar functional connectivity during resting and evoked pain in youth with functional abdominal pain disorders16
Profiling the molecular signature of satellite glial cells at the single cell level reveals high similarities between rodents and humans16
Internet-delivered cognitive and behavioural based interventions for adults with chronic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials16
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 Study16
The associations of opioid and benzodiazepine prescriptions with injuries among US military service members16
Biopsychosocial influence on shoulder pain: results from a randomized preclinical trial of exercise-induced muscle injury16
Give and take: an evolutionary framework for social transactions in pain16
Prediction of the response to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the motor cortex in peripheral neuropathic pain and validation of a new algorithm16
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 Neuropat16
Standardizing research methods for opioid dose comparison: the NIH HEAL morphine milligram equivalent calculator15
Bilateral deficiency of Meissner corpuscles and papillary microvessels in patients with acute complex regional pain syndrome15
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: 15
Mechanisms and manifestations in musculoskeletal pain: from experimental to clinical pain settings15
TRPV1 is the burner15
Reply to Zhang and Pan15
Effects of virtual reality on psychophysical measures of pain: superiority to imagination and nonimmersive conditions15
Huntington-associated protein 1 inhibition contributes to neuropathic pain by suppressing Cav1.2 activity and attenuating inflammation15
Thermal grill illusion of pain in patients with chronic pain: a clinical marker of central sensitization?15
Parental narrative style moderates the relation between pain-related attention and memory biases in youth with chronic pain15
Sympathetic modulation of tumor necrosis factor alpha-induced nociception in the presence of oral squamous cell carcinoma15
Introduction to the biennial review of pain14
Body image, sex, gender, and pain: towards an improved understanding of pain mechanisms14
Functional and anatomical analyses of active spinal circuits in a mouse model of chronic pain14
The thermal grill elicits central sensitization14
Reply to Moulton et al.14
Reply to Manhapra14
Reply to Ali14
Functioning in chronic pain: a call for a global definition14
Reliability and validity of the Pediatric PainSCAN: a screening tool for pediatric neuropathic pain and complex regional pain syndrome14
Unlocking the secrets of daily diary data: can we improve our understanding of the reinforcing effects of pain medication?14
Enhancing healthcare professionals' biopsychosocial perspective to chronic pain: assessing the impact of implementing an interdisciplinary training program14
Contribution of S1pr1-featured astrocyte subpopulation to cisplatin-induced neuropathic pain in male mice14
Predictors of response to full agonist opioids in enriched enrollment randomized withdrawal clinical trials: a participant-level data meta-analysis14
Where is the pain? Spatial patterns of pain co-occurrence in a population-based study of 4833 pain drawings incorporating network analysis14
Nociplastic pain—grading the unknown14
Epigenomic landscape of the human dorsal root ganglion: sex differences and transcriptional regulation of nociceptive genes14
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
The “External Validity Crisis”: now is the time to address the attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion in pain science14
Educational initiatives and achievements of the International Association for the Study of Pain13
Lumbar tactile acuity associated with S1-thalamic functional connectivity and S1 microstructure in patients with low back pain and pain-free controls13
Neural mechanisms underlying the conditioned pain modulation response: a narrative review of neuroimaging studies13
The local molecular signature of human peripheral neuropathic pain13
Advancing understanding of opioid mortality risks beyond initial findings in noncancer pain patients13
Elevated 18:0 lysophosphatidylcholine contributes to the development of pain in tissue injury13
Reply to Esposto and Cioeta (2023): Clarification regarding classical conditioning and conditioned pain13
Nonopioid analgesics discovery and the Valley of Death: EMA401 from concept to clinical trial13
Co-occurrence of chronic pain and anxiety/depression symptoms in U.S. adults: prevalence, functional impacts, and opportunities13
Recommendations for patient education in the management of persistent pelvic pain: a systematic review of clinical practice guidelines13
Gonadal hormone–dependent nociceptor sensitization maintains nociplastic pain state in female mice13
A randomized-controlled pilot trial of telemedicine-delivered cognitive-behavioral therapy tailored for interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome13
Mast cell chymases: essential for preventing the transition from acute to chronic pain13
The invisible cost of pain management by the current International Classification of Diseases coding system: a study in a tertiary care inpatient setting13
Bodily maps of emotions and pain: tactile and hedonic sensitivity in healthy controls and patients experiencing chronic pain13
Nucleus accumbens myocyte enhancer factor 2C mediates the maintenance of peripheral nerve injury–induced physiological and behavioral maladaptations13
A call to action to integrate best practice assessment of sexual orientation and gender identity in pain research and clinical care13
Patient engagement in pain research: no gain without the people in pain13
Characterizing high-cost healthcare users among adults with back pain in Ontario, Canada: a population-based cohort study13
Mirror peripheral neuropathy and unilateral chronic neuropathic pain: insights from asymmetric neurological patterns in leprosy13
Unbiased analysis of the dorsal root ganglion after peripheral nerve injury: no neuronal loss, no gliosis, but satellite glial cell plasticity12
Serum levels of endocannabinoids and related lipids in painful vs painless diabetic neuropathy: results from the Pain in Neuropathy Study12
Dorsal horn volume loss and pain pathway changes in Cavalier King Charles Spaniels with syringomyelia, signs of pain, and phantom scratching12
Is blue light a red herring in a rodent model of “computer vision syndrome”?12
From SARS-CoV-2 to analgesia: harnessing the vascular endothelial growth factor A/neuropilin 1 axis for pain therapy12
Reply to Blomqvist and Evrard12
Intrathecal administration of the Nav1.7 inhibitor PF-05089771 produces rapid and side-effect-free analgesia in mice12
Descending mechanism by which medial prefrontal cortex endocannabinoid signaling controls the development of neuropathic pain and neuronal activity of dorsal root ganglion12
Behavioral cancer pain intervention dosing: results of a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial12
Do “central sensitization” questionnaires reflect measures of nociceptive sensitization or psychological constructs? A systematic review and meta-analyses12
Brain predicted age in chronic pelvic pain: a study by the Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain Research Network12
Reply to Karlsen et al. Consensus on a core outcome set: a panel decision12
Editorial Board12
Duloxetine improves chronic orofacial pain and comorbid depressive symptoms in association with reduction of serotonin transporter protein through upregulation of ubiquitinated serotonin transporter p12
CaV3.2 calcium channels contribute to trigeminal neuralgia12
Haves and have-nots: socioeconomic position improves accuracy of machine learning algorithms for predicting high-impact chronic pain12
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
Selection of corticosteroids for epidural steroid injections12
Immunotherapy, a new approach for the treatment of human pain12
Deciphering relationships between stress biomarkers and fibromyalgia syndrome with implications relevant to other chronic pain conditions12
Referred sensations in the orofacial region are associated with a decreased descending pain inhibition and modulated by remote noxious stimuli and local anesthesia12
Peripheral contributions to offset analgesia: effects of stimulus duration, intensity, and location12
A catheter-associated urinary tract infection mouse model to study bladder dysfunction and pain12
A revisit of soreness and acidosis-related pain11
Modulatory activity of N-palmitoyl-D-glucosamine in bridging gut dysbiosis and pain mechanisms11
Mechanisms of chronic pain in inflammatory rheumatism: the role of descending modulation11
Can a suggested physical activity paradox explain pain in workers?11
Patient engagement in designing, conducting, and disseminating clinical pain research: IMMPACT recommended considerations11
The role of corticolimbic perineuronal nets in mice with chronic neuropathic pain11
Fibromyalgia patients with elevated levels of anti–satellite glia cell immunoglobulin G antibodies present with more severe symptoms11
Risk of adverse outcomes during gabapentinoid therapy and factors associated with increased risk in UK primary care using the clinical practice research datalink: a cohort study11
What is known and what is still unknown within chronic musculoskeletal pain? A systematic evidence and gap map11
Deep learning modelling of structural brain MRI in chronic head and neck pain after mild traumatic brain injury11
Beyond Ammann's pain classification: multidimensional pain phenotyping and cluster analysis in chronic pancreatitis11
Effect of prolonged experimental neck pain on exercise-induced hypoalgesia11
Pro-opiomelanocortin neurons in the nucleus of the solitary tract mediate endorphinergic endogenous analgesia in mice11
Adolescent ethanol exposure promotes mechanical allodynia and alters dopamine transmission in the nucleus accumbens shell11
Pain catastrophizing and pain anxiety mediate changes in physical function in a mind–body intervention for adults with traumatic orthopedic injuries11
Delphi study to explore a new diagnosis for “ineffective” long-term opioid therapy for chronic pain11
Reductions in kinesiophobia and distress after pain neuroscience education and exercise lead to favourable outcomes: a secondary mediation analysis of a randomized controlled trial in primary care11
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