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Tools That Should Be Considered in Pain Assessment: Cognitive Factors, Emotion, and Personality

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Domain  Instrument Neuropsychologya Intelligence KAIT, NART, RPM, WAIS-IV Executive function BADS, Brixton Spatial Anticipation Test, CANTAB, Digit Span, D-KEFS, Fluency, Hayling Sentence Completion Test, Stroop Color/Word test, TMT, Tower of…

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Emotional Aspects of Chronic Pain

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Huffman JC, Pollack MH (2003) Predicting panic disorder among patients with chest pain; an analysis of the literature. Psychosomatics 44:222–236CrossRefPubMed Imbierowicz K, Egle UT (2003) Childhood adversities in patients with…

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Neuroplasticity in the Pain, Emotion, and Cognition Nexus

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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Gisèle Pickering and Stephen Gibson (eds.)Pain, Emotion and Cognition10.1007/978-3-319-12033-1_5 5. Neuroplasticity in the Pain, Emotion, and Cognition Nexus Gisèle Pickering1   (1) Clinical Pharmacology Department, University Hospital, CIC Inserm1405 Medical Faculty, Clermont-Ferrand,…

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Role of Proteases in Pain

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Proteinase-activated receptor (PAR) Activating protease Activating peptide PAR antagonist PAR1 Thrombin TFLLR FR-171113 FXa RWJ-56110 Trypsin RWJ-58259 Granzyme A BMS-200261 APC SCH-79797 Gingipains-R  PAR2 Trypsin SLIGKV FSLLRY-NH2 Tryptase SLIGRL GB-83…

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Pharmacology of Nociceptor Priming

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Fig. 1 Hyperalgesic priming induces a switch in nociceptor second messenger signaling pathways. In a naïve animal, administration (hindpaw injection) of an inflammatory stimulus (e.g., PGE2) results in transient Gs/PKA-mediated…

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and Pain Differences and Commonalities

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Fig. 1 Opioids were applied in the volar forearm of volunteers by dermal microdialysis. Intensity of opioid-induced maximum itch is shown in (a) (visual analog scale 0–10, mean ± SEM). (b) Peak…

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Pain Mechanisms

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Fig. 1 Dimensions of pain 1 Pain-Related Amygdala Circuitry The amygdala is closely interconnected with numerous cortical, subcortical, and brainstem areas. Figure 2 shows key amygdala nuclei and their connections relevant…

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of Inhibition in the Spinal Cord

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Fig. 1 Immunostaining for GABA in a semithin (0.5 μm) section from the L4 segment of a rat that had undergone chronic constriction injury of the left sciatic nerve 2 weeks…

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