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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Chronic pain is specifically associated with updating working memory: a longitudinal twin study173
Unrelieved pain and risk of opioid use disorder or overdose in older adults prescribed opioids103
Personalised decision support in the management of patients with musculoskeletal pain in primary physiotherapy care: a cluster randomised controlled trial (the SupportPrim project)86
TRPA1 rare variants in chronic neuropathic and nociplastic pain patients77
Diagnostic accuracy of quantitative sensory testing for detecting small fiber impairment in polyneuropathy and diagnosing small fiber neuropathy72
The social nature of human pain71
Sex differences in pain expressed by patients across diverse disease states: individual patient data meta-analysis of 33,957 participants in 10 randomized controlled trials69
Neuropathic pain and neurocognitive functioning in children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia67
Adenosine causes short-lasting vasodilation and headache but not migraine attacks in migraine patients: a randomized clinical trial65
Validation of ICD-11 chronic pain severity specifiers for children and adolescents: an important step forward62
On the adverse effects of gabapentinoids59
Orai1 is a crucial downstream partner of group I metabotropic glutamate receptor signaling in dorsal horn neurons59
Reply to Venda Nova et al.57
Improving the art and science of communication in people living with chronic pain56
Sex differences in facial expressions of pain: results from a combined sample55
White matter microstructural associations with pain experiences in a large community sample of youth54
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?54
Benign or painful? The interpretation of pain and fear of progression in rheumatoid arthritis54
Sex differences in visceral sensitivity and brain activity in a rat model of comorbid pain: a longitudinal study53
Statistical modeling of acute and chronic pain patient-reported outcomes obtained from ecological momentary assessment49
Innovative cognitive behavioral therapies for irritable bowel syndrome: processes, predictors, platforms, and outcomes46
Whiplash injuries associated with experienced pain and disability can be visualized with [11C]-D-deprenyl positron emission tomography and computed tomography46
Reply to dos Santos Ferreira and Velly44
Childhood trauma and the use of opioids and other prescription analgesics in adolescence and young adulthood: The HUNT Study42
Association between prescribed opioid dose and risk of motor vehicle crashes42
Reply to Quintner42
Future perspectives: the next fifty years of the International Association for the Study of Pain40
Widespread hyperexcitability of nociceptor somata outlasts enhanced avoidance behavior after incision injury40
Reply to Currie et al.39
Data-driven identification of distinct pain drawing patterns and their association with clinical and psychological factors: a study of 21,123 patients with spinal pain37
Autoantibodies in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome37
Automated detection of squint as a sensitive assay of sex-dependent calcitonin gene–related peptide and amylin-induced pain in mice36
Description and initial validation of a novel measure of pain intensity: the Numeric Rating Scale of Underlying Pain without concurrent Analgesic use36
Neuropilin-1 is essential for vascular endothelial growth factor A–mediated increase of sensory neuron activity and development of pain-like behaviors36
Pediatric chronic pain grading: a revised classification of the severity of pediatric chronic pain35
Gut microbiota dysbiosis alters chronic pain behaviors in a humanized transgenic mouse model of sickle cell disease35
Gaining a new footing on molecular mechanisms of neuropathic pain in patients34
Painful distortions: people with painful knee osteoarthritis have biased visuospatial perception of the environment34
Intrinsic and synaptic properties of adult mouse spinoperiaqueductal gray neurons and the influence of neonatal tissue damage34
Intersectional identity approach to chronic pain disparities using latent class analysis34
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 sides33
Region-specific changes in brain glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid across the migraine attack in children and adolescents33
Formation of perineuronal nets within a thalamocortical circuit shapes mechanical and thermal pain thresholds in mice with neuropathic pain33
Incidence of chronic pelvic pain after childbirth and its causal association with C-section32
Peripheral and central neurobiological effects of botulinum toxin A (BoNT/A) in neuropathic pain: a systematic review32
Adjunctive virtual reality pain relief after traumatic injury: a proof-of-concept within-person randomized trial32
TRESK background potassium channel regulates MrgprA3+ pruriceptor excitability, acute and chronic itch32
[11C]-PBR28 positron emission tomography signal as an imaging marker of joint inflammation in knee osteoarthritis31
Educational needs and preferences of adult patients with acute pain: a mixed-methods systematic review31
Reply to Andrassy and Mukhdomi31
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 trial31
Analgesia and peripheral c-fiber modulation by selective Nav1.8 inhibition in rhesus30
Transmembrane protein TMEM184B is necessary for interleukin-31–induced itch29
Association between physiotherapy utilization and medical healthcare utilization and costs in adults with back pain from Ontario, Canada: a population-based cohort study29
Trajectories of distress regulation during preschool vaccinations: child and caregiver predictors29
Reliability of quantitative sensory testing in the assessment of somatosensory function after high-frequency stimulation–induced sensitisation of central nociceptive pathways28
Can we improve patient outcomes through using evidence-based opioid deprescribing guidelines to reduce opioid use?28
Social support and the association between post-traumatic stress disorder and risk for long-term prescription opioid use28
Alzheimer disease may compromise patients' ability for expectancy-based pain modulation. Now what?28
Brain predictors of multisite pain onset in children28
Multisite chronic pain as a causal risk factor for coronary artery disease: findings from Mendelian randomization28
Decrease in pain perception during acute SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case series28
Paradoxical heat sensation as a manifestation of thermal hypesthesia: a study of 1090 patients with lesions of the somatosensory system: erratum28
Progression trajectories of chronic overlapping pain conditions unveiled across two large clinical data warehouses27
Rejuvenation alleviates prolonged postsurgical pain in aging mice by mitigating inflammaging27
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
Who develops chronic pain after an acute lower limb injury? A longitudinal study of children and adolescents27
Oxidative stress is associated with characteristic features of the dysfunctional chronic pain phenotype27
Effect modifiers of virtual reality in pain management: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis26
Commentary: social disparities in pain26
Increasing risk of cannabis use disorder among U.S. veterans with chronic pain: 2005-201926
Social integration of adolescents with chronic pain: a social network analysis26
The biopsychosocial model of pain 40 years on: time for a reappraisal?26
Adding a nonpainful end to reduce pain recollection of Pap smear screening: a randomized controlled trial25
Abdominoplasty as an acute postoperative pain model: insights from 8 years of clinical trials25
Assessing spontaneous sensory neuron activity using in vivo calcium imaging25
Neuroendocrine mechanisms in oxaliplatin-induced hyperalgesic priming25
The association between parent mental health and pediatric chronic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis25
Converging inputs compete at the lateral parabrachial nuclei to dictate the affective-motivational responses to cold pain24
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 participants24
Patient preferences in the treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain: a systematic review of discrete choice experiments23
Cannabis use disorder in patients with chronic pain: overestimation and underestimation in a cross-sectional observational study in 3 German pain management centres23
Renaming burning mouth syndrome: implications and use for the Research Diagnostic Criteria for Burning Mouth Syndrome23
ATF4 inhibits TRPV4 function and controls itch perception in rodents and nonhuman primates23
Beyond the ambiguity of interpretation bias for pain-related information22
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
Resting-state occipital alpha power is associated with treatment outcome in patients with chronic migraine22
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
Inequities time-to-follow-up care and administrative action after low back pain diagnosis in active duty service members22
Interpretation bias and the transition from acute to chronic pain22
A phenotypic screening platform for chronic pain therapeutics using all-optical electrophysiology22
Microneurographic portrait of 19 patients with small fiber neuropathy—A pilot study21
Reply to Hoegh et al.21
Multi-omic integration with human dorsal root ganglia proteomics highlights TNFα signalling as a relevant sexually dimorphic pathway21
Pain relief after topical capsaicin: does it result from nociceptor degeneration or regeneration?21
Genetic associations of neuropathic pain and sensory profile in a deeply phenotyped neuropathy cohort21
Effects of commonly used analgesics on sleep architecture: a topical review21
Pain's puzzle pieces: MAGI-1, NaV1.8, degradation, analgesia20
Salivary metabolome indicates a shift in tyrosine metabolism in patients with burning mouth syndrome: a prospective case–control study20
A syngeneic inoculation mouse model of endometriosis that develops multiple comorbid visceral and cutaneous pain like behaviours20
The thalamic projection of pain sensations to the posterior dorsal fundus in the insula: comment on Mandonnet et al.20
Chronic pain in European adult populations: a systematic review of prevalence and associated clinical features19
Examination of the contribution of Nav1.7 to axonal propagation in nociceptors19
Behavioral outcomes of complete Freund adjuvant–induced inflammatory pain in the rodent hind paw: a systematic review and meta-analysis19
Grpr expression defines a population of superficial dorsal horn vertical cells that have a role in both itch and pain19
Delphi study to define core clinical outcomes for inclusion in a complex regional pain syndrome international research registry and data bank19
ARMS/Kidins220 regulates nociception by controlling brain-derived neurotrophic factor secretion19
Positive affect and distraction enhance whereas negative affect impairs pain modulation in patients with recurrent low back pain and matched controls19
Digging deeper into pain: an ethological behavior assay correlating well-being in mice with human pain experience19
To persist or not to persist? The dilemma of goal adjustment in chronic pain19
Inflammatory reactivity is unrelated to childhood adversity or provoked modulation of nociception19
Rostral ventral medulla circuits regulate both the sensory and affective dimensions of neuropathic pain: a commentary on Dogrul et al.18
Dorsal root ganglion toll-like receptor 4 signaling contributes to oxaliplatin-induced peripheral neuropathy18
Standardizing research methods for opioid dose comparison: the NIH HEAL morphine milligram equivalent calculator18
Profiling the molecular signature of satellite glial cells at the single cell level reveals high similarities between rodents and humans18
A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of long-acting dexamethasone viscous gel delivered by transforaminal injection for lumbosacral radicular pain18
Multimodal hypersensitivity and somatic symptoms predict adolescent postmenarchal widespread pain18
Estrous cycle regulates cephalic mechanical sensitivity and sensitization of the trigemino-cervical complex in a female rat model of chronic migraine18
CD304+ adipose tissue–derived mesenchymal stem cell abundance in autologous fat grafts highly correlates with improvement of localized pain syndromes18
Deep learning–guided postoperative pain assessment in children18
Long-term alterations in somatosensory functioning in survivors of childhood cancer18
Give and take: an evolutionary framework for social transactions in pain18
Upregulation of LncRNA71132 in the spinal cord regulates hypersensitivity in a rat model of bone cancer pain18
Conotoxin contulakin-G engages a neurotensin receptor 2/R-type calcium channel (Cav2.3) pathway to mediate spinal antinociception18
Interoception and pain: body–mind integration, rupture, and repair18
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 Neuropat18
Informing about side effects: putting patients (preferences) first17
Quantitative somatosensory testing of the abdomen: establishing initial reference values across developmental age and biological sex17
Demise of nociceptive Schwann cells causes nerve retraction and pain hyperalgesia: Erratum17
Chronic pain among U.S. sexual minority adults who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or “something else”: Erratum17
The associations of opioid and benzodiazepine prescriptions with injuries among US military service members17
Realigning the role of quantitative sensory testing in sensory profiling of patients with and without neuropathic pain17
Associations of opioid prescription dose and discontinuation with risk of substance-related morbidity in long-term opioid therapy17
Chronic pain in the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases: users' questions answered17
“Belief-based” medicine is not evidence-based medicine17
Unraveling the puzzle of pain in pancreatic diseases16
Huntington-associated protein 1 inhibition contributes to neuropathic pain by suppressing Cav1.2 activity and attenuating inflammation16
Is there really no association between postoperative opioid use and long-term surgical outcomes in patients diagnosed with liver cancer?16
CARTp/GPR160 mediates behavioral hypersensitivities in mice through NOD216
Amygdalar functional connectivity during resting and evoked pain in youth with functional abdominal pain disorders16
Biopsychosocial influence on shoulder pain: results from a randomized preclinical trial of exercise-induced muscle injury16
Reply to Manhapra16
In memoriam: Stephen B. McMahon, PhD, FMedSci December 21, 1954 to October 9, 202116
Leveraging value-based health principles to improve translation and impact of digital psychological interventions for people with chronic pain16
Melatonin for neuropathic pain: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, crossover trial16
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
Three dimensions of pain in osteoarthritis: development and validation of the Osteoarthritis Symptom Inventory Scale16
Advances in the analysis of intensive longitudinal pain data: a commentary on Leroux et al.16
Neuroinflammation drives sex-dependent effects on pain and negative affect in a murine model of repeated mild traumatic brain injury16
MicroRNA let-7b enhances spinal cord nociceptive synaptic transmission and induces acute and persistent pain through neuronal and microglial signaling15
Nerve injury induces transient locus coeruleus activation over time: role of the locus coeruleus–dorsal reticular nucleus pathway15
Resting-state electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography as biomarkers of chronic pain: a systematic review15
Psychosocial mechanisms underlying the transition from acute to chronic postsurgical pain in youth following spinal fusion: a 6-month longitudinal study15
Mechanisms and manifestations in musculoskeletal pain: from experimental to clinical pain settings15
Canadian surveillance study of complex regional pain syndrome in children15
Efficacy of nonpharmacological interventions for individual features of fibromyalgia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials15
Prediction of the response to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the motor cortex in peripheral neuropathic pain and validation of a new algorithm15
Educational disparities in joint pain within and across US states: do macro sociopolitical contexts matter?15
Effectiveness of neural mobilisation for the treatment of nerve-related cervicobrachial pain: a systematic review with subgroup meta-analysis15
Epigenomic landscape of the human dorsal root ganglion: sex differences and transcriptional regulation of nociceptive genes14
Introduction to the biennial review of pain14
A novel potential strategy for the treatment of inflammatory and neuropathic pain14
A call to action to integrate best practice assessment of sexual orientation and gender identity in pain research and clinical care14
Cutaneous nerve fiber and peripheral Nav1.7 assessment in a large cohort of patients with postherpetic neuralgia14
Open-label nondeceptive placebo analgesia is blocked by the opioid antagonist naloxone14
Reply to Moulton et al.14
Unlocking the secrets of daily diary data: can we improve our understanding of the reinforcing effects of pain medication?14
Thermal grill illusion of pain in patients with chronic pain: a clinical marker of central sensitization?14
Bilateral deficiency of Meissner corpuscles and papillary microvessels in patients with acute complex regional pain syndrome14
Nociplastic pain—grading the unknown14
Reply to Ali14
A paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus input to ventral of lateral septal nucleus controls chronic visceral pain14
Where is the pain? Spatial patterns of pain co-occurrence in a population-based study of 4833 pain drawings incorporating network analysis14
Functioning in chronic pain: a call for a global definition14
Neural mechanisms underlying the conditioned pain modulation response: a narrative review of neuroimaging studies14
Nucleus accumbens myocyte enhancer factor 2C mediates the maintenance of peripheral nerve injury–induced physiological and behavioral maladaptations14
Reply to Manhapra14
TRPV1 is the burner14
Internet-delivered cognitive and behavioural based interventions for adults with chronic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials14
Educational initiatives and achievements of the International Association for the Study of Pain14
Bodily maps of emotions and pain: tactile and hedonic sensitivity in healthy controls and patients experiencing chronic pain14
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
The bidirectional relationship between sleep problems and chronic musculoskeletal pain: a systematic review with meta-analysis13
Reply to Karlsen et al. Consensus on a core outcome set: a panel decision13
The local molecular signature of human peripheral neuropathic pain13
Clinical features and functional analysis of novel SCN9A variants causing congenital insensitivity to pain13
Effects of virtual reality on psychophysical measures of pain: superiority to imagination and nonimmersive conditions13
Body image, sex, gender, and pain: towards an improved understanding of pain mechanisms13
Gonadal hormone–dependent nociceptor sensitization maintains nociplastic pain state in female mice13
Sympathetic modulation of tumor necrosis factor alpha-induced nociception in the presence of oral squamous cell carcinoma13
Mast cell chymases: essential for preventing the transition from acute to chronic pain13
Potentiation of visualized exosomal miR-1306-3p from primary sensory neurons contributes to chronic visceral pain via spinal P2X3 receptors13
Enhancing healthcare professionals' biopsychosocial perspective to chronic pain: assessing the impact of implementing an interdisciplinary training program13
The invisible cost of pain management by the current International Classification of Diseases coding system: a study in a tertiary care inpatient setting13
A multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, comparative study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of newly developed diclofenac patches in patients with cancer pain13
Measuring pain care quality in the Veterans Health Administration primary care setting13
Functional and anatomical analyses of active spinal circuits in a mouse model of chronic pain13
From SARS-CoV-2 to analgesia: harnessing the vascular endothelial growth factor A/neuropilin 1 axis for pain therapy13
Recommendations for patient education in the management of persistent pelvic pain: a systematic review of clinical practice guidelines13
Behavioral cancer pain intervention dosing: results of a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial13
A randomized-controlled pilot trial of telemedicine-delivered cognitive-behavioral therapy tailored for interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome13
Reply to Zhang and Pan13
Parental narrative style moderates the relation between pain-related attention and memory biases in youth with chronic pain13
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: 13
Opioid-related risk perceptions in chronic pain: influence of patient gender and previous misuse behaviors13
Duloxetine improves chronic orofacial pain and comorbid depressive symptoms in association with reduction of serotonin transporter protein through upregulation of ubiquitinated serotonin transporter p12
Postnatal development of inner lamina II interneurons of the rat medullary dorsal horn12
Referred sensations in the orofacial region are associated with a decreased descending pain inhibition and modulated by remote noxious stimuli and local anesthesia12
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
Elevated 18:0 lysophosphatidylcholine contributes to the development of pain in tissue injury12
Haves and have-nots: socioeconomic position improves accuracy of machine learning algorithms for predicting high-impact chronic pain12
Impaired pain-related threat and safety learning in patients with chronic back pain12
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
Trauma matters: psychological interventions for comorbid psychosocial trauma and chronic pain12
Characterizing high-cost healthcare users among adults with back pain in Ontario, Canada: a population-based cohort study12
Mirror peripheral neuropathy and unilateral chronic neuropathic pain: insights from asymmetric neurological patterns in leprosy12
Descending mechanism by which medial prefrontal cortex endocannabinoid signaling controls the development of neuropathic pain and neuronal activity of dorsal root ganglion12
Serum levels of endocannabinoids and related lipids in painful vs painless diabetic neuropathy: results from the Pain in Neuropathy Study12
Reply to Blomqvist and Evrard12
Deciphering relationships between stress biomarkers and fibromyalgia syndrome with implications relevant to other chronic pain conditions12
Reply to Esposto and Cioeta (2023): Clarification regarding classical conditioning and conditioned pain12
Immunotherapy, a new approach for the treatment of human pain12
Dorsal horn volume loss and pain pathway changes in Cavalier King Charles Spaniels with syringomyelia, signs of pain, and phantom scratching12
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
Is blue light a red herring in a rodent model of “computer vision syndrome”?12
Selection of corticosteroids for epidural steroid injections12
miR-1306-3p directly activates P2X3 receptors in primary sensory neurons to induce visceral pain in rats11
TRPM3 as a novel target to alleviate acute oxaliplatin-induced peripheral neuropathic pain11
CaV3.2 calcium channels contribute to trigeminal neuralgia11
Tyrosine kinase type A–specific signalling pathways are critical for mechanical allodynia development and bone alterations in a mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis11
Expression of ectopic heat shock protein 90 in male and female primary afferent nociceptors regulates inflammatory pain11
Immigration background as a risk factor of chronic pain and high-impact chronic pain in children and adolescents living in Spain: differences as a function of age11
A revisit of soreness and acidosis-related pain11
NaViGating arthritis pain11
High-frequency electrical stimulation increases cortical excitability and mechanical sensitivity in a chronic large animal model11
Expectations underlie the effects of unpredictable pain: a behavioral and electroencephalogram study11
Fifty years of pain research and clinical advances: highlights and key trends11
Long-term opioid therapy unsettles us both coming and going11
Under the insula: a commentary on “Electrostimulation of the white matter of the posterior insula and medial operculum: perception of vibrations, heat, and pain”11
Rare variant analyses in large-scale cohorts identified SLC13A1 associated with chronic pain11
Deep learning modelling of structural brain MRI in chronic head and neck pain after mild TBI11
Do “central sensitization” questionnaires reflect measures of nociceptive sensitization or psychological constructs? A systematic review and meta-analyses11
Sleep disruption and activation of cellular inflammation mediate heightened pain sensitivity: a randomized clinical trial11
Psychiatric disorders, personality traits, and childhood traumatic events predicting incidence and persistence of chronic pain: results from the CoLaus|PsyCoLaus study11
What is known and what is still unknown within chronic musculoskeletal pain? A systematic evidence and gap map11
Investigating neuroepigenetic alterations in chronic low back pain with positron emission tomography11
Novel proresolving lipid mediator mimetic 3-oxa-PD1n-3 docosapentaenoic acid reduces acute and chronic itch by modulating excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission and astroglial secretion of li11
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