Pain

Papers
(The TQCC of Pain is 9. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Translational control by general control nonderepressible 2 kinase regulates methylglyoxal-induced pain in mice222
Unrelieved pain and risk of opioid use disorder or overdose in older adults prescribed opioids167
Benign or painful? The interpretation of pain and fear of progression in rheumatoid arthritis109
Pediatric chronic pain grading: a revised classification of the severity of pediatric chronic pain106
Adenosine causes short-lasting vasodilation and headache but not migraine attacks in migraine patients: a randomized clinical trial106
Autoantibodies in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome97
The social nature of human pain85
Chemokines as targets to treat chronic postoperative pain77
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 Administration74
Sex differences in pain expressed by patients across diverse disease states: individual patient data meta-analysis of 33,957 participants in 10 randomized controlled trials72
Diagnostic accuracy of quantitative sensory testing for detecting small fiber impairment in polyneuropathy and diagnosing small fiber neuropathy64
Personalised decision support in the management of patients with musculoskeletal pain in primary physiotherapy care: a cluster randomised controlled trial (the SupportPrim project)63
Sex differences in visceral sensitivity and brain activity in a rat model of comorbid pain: a longitudinal study62
C–C motif chemokine ligand 12 (CCL12) is a critical chemokine driving postoperative pain60
Table of Contents58
Showcasing scientific discovery in PAIN: an opportunity for authors55
Episodic pain in Fabry disease is mediated by a heat shock protein-transient receptor potential cation channel A1 axis54
White matter microstructural associations with pain experiences in a large community sample of youth54
Intrinsic and synaptic properties of adult mouse spinoperiaqueductal gray neurons and the influence of neonatal tissue damage50
Selective targeting of voltage-gated sodium channels to achieve analgesia: current status and future directions49
Reply to dos Santos Ferreira and Velly48
Association between prescribed opioid dose and risk of motor vehicle crashes48
Future perspectives: the next fifty years of the International Association for the Study of Pain47
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 environment44
Childhood trauma and the use of opioids and other prescription analgesics in adolescence and young adulthood: The HUNT Study43
Innovative cognitive behavioral therapies for irritable bowel syndrome: processes, predictors, platforms, and outcomes43
Neuropilin-1 is essential for vascular endothelial growth factor A–mediated increase of sensory neuron activity and development of pain-like behaviors41
Data-driven identification of distinct pain drawing patterns and their association with clinical and psychological factors: a study of 21,123 patients with spinal pain41
Reply to Quintner39
The future of pain research: neuromodulation and surgery39
Gut microbiota dysbiosis alters chronic pain behaviors in a humanized transgenic mouse model of sickle cell disease38
Chronic pain is specifically associated with updating working memory: a longitudinal twin study37
Statistical modeling of acute and chronic pain patient-reported outcomes obtained from ecological momentary assessment37
On the adverse effects of gabapentinoids37
Subjective salience ratings are a reliable proxy for physiological measures of arousal36
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?36
The contribution of baseline circulating endocannabinoids to individual differences in human pain sensitivity: a quantitative sensory testing study36
TRPA1 rare variants in chronic neuropathic and nociplastic pain patients36
Improving the art and science of communication in people living with chronic pain36
Description and initial validation of a novel measure of pain intensity: the Numeric Rating Scale of Underlying Pain without concurrent Analgesic use35
Sex differences in facial expressions of pain: results from a combined sample34
Widespread hyperexcitability of nociceptor somata outlasts enhanced avoidance behavior after incision injury34
Unintended prolonged opioid use: a prospective case–control study33
Alzheimer disease may compromise patients' ability for expectancy-based pain modulation. Now what?33
Increasing risk of cannabis use disorder among U.S. veterans with chronic pain: 2005-201932
Prevalence and correlates of “undiagnosed pain”: evidence from the US national Medical Expenditure Panel Survey32
TRESK background potassium channel regulates MrgprA3+ pruriceptor excitability, acute and chronic itch32
Gaining a new footing on molecular mechanisms of neuropathic pain in patients32
The impact of chronic pain on brain gene expression31
[11C]-PBR28 positron emission tomography signal as an imaging marker of joint inflammation in knee osteoarthritis31
Peripheral and central neurobiological effects of botulinum toxin A (BoNT/A) in neuropathic pain: a systematic review31
Forward and reverse engineering the pain system: from computational neuroscience to neuro-engineering30
Reply to Andrassy and Mukhdomi30
Leveraging technologies to upskill primary care providers in person-centred pain care30
Multisite chronic pain as a causal risk factor for coronary artery disease: findings from Mendelian randomization30
Editorial Board30
How the next 50 years of positron emission tomography can transform our understanding of chronic pain29
Progression trajectories of chronic overlapping pain conditions unveiled across two large clinical data warehouses28
Effects of transcranial ultrasound stimulation of primary somatosensory cortex and ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus on acute pain perception28
Social disparities in pain28
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 study28
Paradoxical heat sensation as a manifestation of thermal hypesthesia: a study of 1090 patients with lesions of the somatosensory system: erratum28
Adjunctive virtual reality pain relief after traumatic injury: a proof-of-concept within-person randomized trial28
Transcranial direct current stimulation of primary motor cortex reduces thermal pain27
Rejuvenation alleviates prolonged postsurgical pain in aging mice by mitigating inflammaging27
Thermal grill–induced pain: further evidence for its pathophysiological and clinical relevance26
Astrocytogenic bidirectional plasticity at spinal nociceptive synapses regulates acute nociceptive processing26
Region-specific changes in brain glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid across the migraine attack in children and adolescents26
Reliability of quantitative sensory testing in the assessment of somatosensory function after high-frequency stimulation–induced sensitisation of central nociceptive pathways26
Analgesia and peripheral c-fiber modulation by selective Nav1.8 inhibition in rhesus26
Incidence of chronic pelvic pain after childbirth and its causal association with C-section25
Reply to Rattanapitoon et al.25
Dyspareunia: a novel clinical approach for diagnosis based on pain mechanisms25
Prevalence and characterization of pediatric-onset spinal cord injury pain as reported by youth: an observational and case control association study with TRPA1 gene single nucleotide polymorphisms25
Effect modifiers of virtual reality in pain management: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis24
Educational needs and preferences of adult patients with acute pain: a mixed-methods systematic review24
Association between physiotherapy utilization and medical healthcare utilization and costs in adults with back pain from Ontario, Canada: a population-based cohort study24
Social support and the association between post-traumatic stress disorder and risk for long-term prescription opioid use24
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 sides24
Who develops chronic pain after an acute lower limb injury? A longitudinal study of children and adolescents24
Cannabis use disorder in patients with chronic pain: overestimation and underestimation in a cross-sectional observational study in 3 German pain management centres23
Formation of perineuronal nets within a thalamocortical circuit shapes mechanical and thermal pain thresholds in mice with neuropathic pain23
The biopsychosocial model of pain 40 years on: time for a reappraisal?23
Reply to Chang, Gau, and Jhang23
Towards a tool to discriminate between pain mechanistic descriptors: expert ranking of clinical features and allocation of weights using a forced choice paradigm23
Beyond the ambiguity of interpretation bias for pain-related information23
Open data sharing: what could possibly go wrong?23
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 trial23
Neuroendocrine mechanisms in oxaliplatin-induced hyperalgesic priming23
ATF4 inhibits TRPV4 function and controls itch perception in rodents and nonhuman primates22
Delphi study to define core clinical outcomes for inclusion in a complex regional pain syndrome international research registry and data bank22
Genetic associations of neuropathic pain and sensory profile in a deeply phenotyped neuropathy cohort22
Inequities in time-to-follow-up care and administrative action after low back pain diagnosis in active duty service members22
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
ARMS/Kidins220 regulates nociception by controlling brain-derived neurotrophic factor secretion22
Spinal mitochondrial-derived peroxynitrite enhances neuroimmune activation during morphine hyperalgesia and antinociceptive tolerance: Erratum21
Spontaneous activity in pain patient stem cell–derived sensory neurons arises from one functional subclass21
Microneurographic portrait of 19 patients with small fiber neuropathy: a pilot study21
The thalamic projection of pain sensations to the posterior dorsal fundus in the insula: comment on Mandonnet et al.21
Pain relief after topical capsaicin: does it result from nociceptor degeneration or regeneration?21
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
Table of Contents21
Agreement between youth and caregiver report of pain and functioning in pediatric sickle cell disease: PedsQL sickle cell disease module21
Reply to Hoegh et al.21
Interpretation bias and the transition from acute to chronic pain21
Hypnosis in chronic pain: from new hope to emerging standard?20
Inflammatory reactivity is unrelated to childhood adversity or provoked modulation of nociception20
Adding a nonpainful end to reduce pain recollection of Pap smear screening: a randomized controlled trial20
Assessing spontaneous sensory neuron activity using in vivo calcium imaging20
Renaming burning mouth syndrome: implications and use for the Research Diagnostic Criteria for Burning Mouth Syndrome20
Moving beyond pain intensity as the primary outcome measure: the INTEGRATE pain framework and beyond20
Patient preferences in the treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain: a systematic review of discrete choice experiments20
A phenotypic screening platform for chronic pain therapeutics using all-optical electrophysiology20
Effects of commonly used analgesics on sleep architecture: a topical review20
Quantitative sensory testing–based sensory phenotypes align with measures of peripheral nerve damage in patients with painful polyneuropathies20
Digging deeper into pain: an ethological behavior assay correlating well-being in mice with human pain experience19
Multi-omic integration with human dorsal root ganglia proteomics highlights TNFα signalling as a relevant sexually dimorphic pathway19
Grpr expression defines a population of superficial dorsal horn vertical cells that have a role in both itch and pain19
Chronic pain in European adult populations: a systematic review of prevalence and associated clinical features19
The association between parent mental health and pediatric chronic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis19
Salivary metabolome indicates a shift in tyrosine metabolism in patients with burning mouth syndrome: a prospective case–control study19
Converging inputs compete at the lateral parabrachial nuclei to dictate the affective-motivational responses to cold pain19
Abdominoplasty as an acute postoperative pain model: insights from 8 years of clinical trials19
Small nerve fibre pathology in non-neuropathic chronic pain conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis19
Pain's puzzle pieces: MAGI-1, NaV1.8, degradation, analgesia19
Rostral ventral medulla circuits regulate both the sensory and affective dimensions of neuropathic pain: a commentary on Dogrul et al.19
The use of quantitative sensory testing for personalized pain medicine in the age of AI19
“Belief-based” medicine is not evidence-based medicine18
CARTp/GPR160 mediates behavioral hypersensitivities in mice through NOD218
Informing about side effects: putting patients (preferences) first18
Quantitative somatosensory testing of the abdomen: establishing initial reference values across developmental age and biological sex18
Reply to Manhapra18
Unraveling the puzzle of pain in pancreatic diseases18
Advances in the analysis of intensive longitudinal pain data: a commentary on Leroux et al.18
Effectiveness of neural mobilisation for the treatment of nerve-related cervicobrachial pain: a systematic review with subgroup meta-analysis17
Is there really no association between postoperative opioid use and long-term surgical outcomes in patients diagnosed with liver cancer?17
Perceiving pain alters body perception: the effects of acute pain on body image and sensory testing17
The associations of opioid and benzodiazepine prescriptions with injuries among US military service members17
Neuroinflammation drives sex-dependent effects on pain and negative affect in a murine model of repeated mild traumatic brain injury17
Chronic pain among U.S. sexual minority adults who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or “something else”: Erratum17
CD304+ adipose tissue–derived mesenchymal stem cell abundance in autologous fat grafts highly correlates with improvement of localized pain syndromes17
Demise of nociceptive Schwann cells causes nerve retraction and pain hyperalgesia: Erratum17
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
MicroRNA let-7b enhances spinal cord nociceptive synaptic transmission and induces acute and persistent pain through neuronal and microglial signaling17
Estrous cycle regulates cephalic mechanical sensitivity and sensitization of the trigemino-cervical complex in a female rat model of chronic migraine16
Table of Contents16
Psychosocial mechanisms underlying the transition from acute to chronic postsurgical pain in youth following spinal fusion: a 6-month longitudinal study16
A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of long-acting dexamethasone viscous gel delivered by transforaminal injection for lumbosacral radicular pain16
Give and take: an evolutionary framework for social transactions in pain16
Cutaneous nerve fiber and peripheral Nav1.7 assessment in a large cohort of patients with postherpetic neuralgia16
Three dimensions of pain in osteoarthritis: development and validation of the Osteoarthritis Symptom Inventory Scale16
Prediction of the response to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the motor cortex in peripheral neuropathic pain and validation of a new algorithm16
Mechanisms and manifestations in musculoskeletal pain: from experimental to clinical pain settings16
Melatonin for neuropathic pain: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, crossover trial16
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
Functional coupling between peripheral nociceptor terminals in vivo is enhanced during acute inflammation16
Interoception and pain: body–mind integration, rupture, and repair16
Multimodal hypersensitivity and somatic symptoms predict adolescent postmenarchal widespread pain16
Upregulation of LncRNA71132 in the spinal cord regulates hypersensitivity in a rat model of bone cancer pain16
The invisible cost of pain management by the current International Classification of Diseases coding system: a study in a tertiary care inpatient setting15
Inhibition of bladder sensory afferents via intrabladder injection of adenoassociated viruses-retro–mediated Gi-DREADDs alleviates bladder overactivity and pain in mice15
Huntington-associated protein 1 inhibition contributes to neuropathic pain by suppressing Cav1.2 activity and attenuating inflammation15
Parental narrative style moderates the relation between pain-related attention and memory biases in youth with chronic pain15
Open-label nondeceptive placebo analgesia is blocked by the opioid antagonist naloxone15
Leveraging value-based health principles to improve translation and impact of digital psychological interventions for people with chronic pain15
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
Nucleus accumbens myocyte enhancer factor 2C mediates the maintenance of peripheral nerve injury–induced physiological and behavioral maladaptations15
Bilateral deficiency of Meissner corpuscles and papillary microvessels in patients with acute complex regional pain syndrome15
A paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus input to ventral of lateral septal nucleus controls chronic visceral pain15
Biopsychosocial influence on shoulder pain: results from a randomized preclinical trial of exercise-induced muscle injury15
Partial heat shock response and transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 sensitization redefine mechanisms of Fabry disease pain15
Standardizing research methods for opioid dose comparison: the NIH HEAL morphine milligram equivalent calculator15
Educational disparities in joint pain within and across US states: do macro sociopolitical contexts matter?15
TRPV1 is the burner15
Educational initiatives and achievements of the International Association for the Study of Pain15
Reply to Zhang and Pan15
Deep learning–guided postoperative pain assessment in children15
Resting-state electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography as biomarkers of chronic pain: a systematic review15
Phenotypic characteristics of chronic pain and pain-related factors in gender minority persons: a cross-sectional study15
Body image, sex, gender, and pain: towards an improved understanding of pain mechanisms14
Lumbar tactile acuity associated with S1-thalamic functional connectivity and S1 microstructure in patients with low back pain and pain-free controls14
Clinical features and functional analysis of novel SCN9A variants causing congenital insensitivity to pain14
Reply to Ali14
Reply to Manhapra14
Reliability and validity of the Pediatric PainSCAN: a screening tool for pediatric neuropathic pain and complex regional pain syndrome14
Most digital psychological interventions for chronic pain fail to measure all 4 dimensions of the quadruple aim of value-based health care: a scoping review14
The thermal grill elicits central sensitization14
Effects of virtual reality on psychophysical measures of pain: superiority to imagination and nonimmersive conditions14
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
A novel potential strategy for the treatment of inflammatory and neuropathic pain14
Unlocking the secrets of daily diary data: can we improve our understanding of the reinforcing effects of pain medication?14
Reply to Chen and Yeh14
Thermal grill illusion of pain in patients with chronic pain: a clinical marker of central sensitization?14
Bodily maps of emotions and pain: tactile and hedonic sensitivity in healthy controls and patients experiencing chronic pain14
Functional and anatomical analyses of active spinal circuits in a mouse model of chronic pain14
Nociplastic pain—grading the unknown14
Introduction to the biennial review of pain14
Reply to Moulton et al.14
Gonadal hormone–dependent nociceptor sensitization maintains nociplastic pain state in female mice14
Neural mechanisms underlying the conditioned pain modulation response: a narrative review of neuroimaging studies14
Co-occurrence of chronic pain and anxiety/depression symptoms in U.S. adults: prevalence, functional impacts, and opportunities13
Nonopioid analgesics discovery and the Valley of Death: EMA401 from concept to clinical trial13
From SARS-CoV-2 to analgesia: harnessing the vascular endothelial growth factor A/neuropilin 1 axis for pain therapy13
Reply to Karlsen et al. Consensus on a core outcome set: a panel decision13
Immunotherapy, a new approach for the treatment of human pain13
Mirror peripheral neuropathy and unilateral chronic neuropathic pain: insights from asymmetric neurological patterns in leprosy13
The local molecular signature of human peripheral neuropathic pain13
Recommendations for patient education in the management of persistent pelvic pain: a systematic review of clinical practice guidelines13
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
Reply to Esposto and Cioeta (2023): Clarification regarding classical conditioning and conditioned pain13
Deciphering relationships between stress biomarkers and fibromyalgia syndrome with implications relevant to other chronic pain conditions13
Is blue light a red herring in a rodent model of “computer vision syndrome”?13
Functioning in chronic pain: a call for a global definition13
Enhancing healthcare professionals' biopsychosocial perspective to chronic pain: assessing the impact of implementing an interdisciplinary training program13
A call to action to integrate best practice assessment of sexual orientation and gender identity in pain research and clinical care13
Mast cell chymases: essential for preventing the transition from acute to chronic pain13
Editorial Board13
Reply to Blomqvist and Evrard13
Selection of corticosteroids for epidural steroid injections13
The “External Validity Crisis”: now is the time to address the attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion in pain science13
Potentiation of visualized exosomal miR-1306-3p from primary sensory neurons contributes to chronic visceral pain via spinal P2X3 receptors12
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
Elevated 18:0 lysophosphatidylcholine contributes to the development of pain in tissue injury12
Intrathecal administration of the Nav1.7 inhibitor PF-05089771 produces rapid and side-effect-free analgesia in mice12
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
Momentary assessment of mental imagery and pain-related psychological factors in youth with chronic pain12
Brain predicted age in chronic pelvic pain: a study by the Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain Research Network12
Characterizing high-cost healthcare users among adults with back pain in Ontario, Canada: a population-based cohort study12
Peripheral contributions to offset analgesia: effects of stimulus duration, intensity, and location12
Duloxetine improves chronic orofacial pain and comorbid depressive symptoms in association with reduction of serotonin transporter protein through upregulation of ubiquitinated serotonin transporter p12
miR-1306-3p directly activates P2X3 receptors in primary sensory neurons to induce visceral pain in rats12
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
Sleep disruption and activation of cellular inflammation mediate heightened pain sensitivity: a randomized clinical trial12
The bidirectional relationship between sleep problems and chronic musculoskeletal pain: a systematic review with meta-analysis12
TRPM3 as a novel target to alleviate acute oxaliplatin-induced peripheral neuropathic pain12
Serum levels of endocannabinoids and related lipids in painful vs painless diabetic neuropathy: results from the Pain in Neuropathy Study12
Haves and have-nots: socioeconomic position improves accuracy of machine learning algorithms for predicting high-impact chronic pain12
Advancing understanding of opioid mortality risks beyond initial findings in noncancer pain patients12
Patient engagement in pain research: no gain without the people in pain12
Descending mechanism by which medial prefrontal cortex endocannabinoid signaling controls the development of neuropathic pain and neuronal activity of dorsal root ganglion12
Unbiased analysis of the dorsal root ganglion after peripheral nerve injury: no neuronal loss, no gliosis, but satellite glial cell plasticity12
A randomized-controlled pilot trial of telemedicine-delivered cognitive-behavioral therapy tailored for interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome12
Referred sensations in the orofacial region are associated with a decreased descending pain inhibition and modulated by remote noxious stimuli and local anesthesia12
Promoting multidisciplinary pain management in low- and middle-income countries—challenges and achievements11
Mechanisms of chronic pain in inflammatory rheumatism: the role of descending modulation11
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