Pain vulnerability: a neurobiological perspective

Persistent postsurgical pain: risk factors and prevention

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Cognitive and emotional control of pain and its disruption in chronic pain

Bushnell, M. C., Čeko, M., & Low, L. A. (2013) · Nature Reviews Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nrn3516 · Cited by 2,076 · see citing works

Non-specific low back pain

Balagué, F., Mannion, A. F., Pellisé, F., & Cedraschi, C. (2011) · The Lancet · doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(11)60610-7 · Cited by 1,861 · see citing works

An fMRI-Based Neurologic Signature of Physical Pain

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Pathogenesis and management of pain in osteoarthritis

Dieppe, P. A., & Lohmander, S. L. (2005) · The Lancet · doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(05)71086-2 · Cited by 1,214 · see citing works

Dissociating pain from its anticipation in the human brain

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Corticostriatal functional connectivity predicts transition to chronic back pain

Baliki, M. N., Petre, B., Torbey, S., Herrmann, K. M., Huang, L., Schnitzer, T. J., Fields, H. L., & Apkarian, A. V. (2012) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nn.3153 · Cited by 1,050 · see citing works

Descending control of nociception: Specificity, recruitment and plasticity

Heinricher, M. M., Tavares, I., Leith, J. L., & Lumb, B. M. (2008) · Brain Research Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.brainresrev.2008.12.009 · Cited by 953 · see citing works

Prevalence and Characteristics of Painful Diabetic Neuropathy in a Large Community-Based Diabetic Population in the U.K.

Abbott, C. A., Malik, R. A., van Ross, E. R. E., Kulkarni, J., & Boulton, A. J. M. (2011) · Diabetes Care · doi:10.2337/dc11-1108 · Cited by 868 · see citing works

Shape shifting pain: chronification of back pain shifts brain representation from nociceptive to emotional circuits

Hashmi, J. A., Baliki, M. N., Huang, L., Baria, A. T., Torbey, S., Hermann, K. M., Schnitzer, T. J., & Apkarian, A. V. (2013) · Brain · doi:10.1093/brain/awt211 · Cited by 762 · see citing works

Prediction of chronic post-operative pain: Pre-operative DNIC testing identifies patients at risk

Yarnitsky, D., Crispel, Y., Eisenberg, E., Granovsky, Y., Ben-Nun, A., Sprecher, E., Best, L.-A., & Granot, M. (2008) · Pain · doi:10.1016/j.pain.2007.10.033 · Cited by 750 · see citing works

Conditioned pain modulation (the diffuse noxious inhibitory control-like effect): its relevance for acute and chronic pain states

Yarnitsky, D. (2010) · Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology · doi:10.1097/aco.0b013e32833c348b · Cited by 745 · see citing works

Epigenome-Wide Scans Identify Differentially Methylated Regions for Age and Age-Related Phenotypes in a Healthy Ageing Population

Bell, J., Tsai, P.-C., Yang, T.-P., Pidsley, R., Nisbet, J. P., Glass, D., Mangino, M., Zhai, G., Zhang, F., Valdes, A., et al. (2012) · PLoS Genetics · doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002629 · Cited by 722 · see citing works

Neuronal MeCP2 Is Expressed at Near Histone-Octamer Levels and Globally Alters the Chromatin State

Skene, P. J., Illingworth, R. S., Webb, S., Kerr, A. R. W., James, K. D., Turner, D. J., Andrews, R., & Bird, A. P. (2010) · Molecular Cell · doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2010.01.030 · Cited by 688 · see citing works

Mechanisms and functions of Tet protein-mediated 5-methylcytosine oxidationPreprint

Wu, H., & Zhang, Y. (2011) · Genes & Development · doi:10.17615/800j-yk16 · Cited by 665 · see citing works

Accelerated Brain Gray Matter Loss in Fibromyalgia Patients: Premature Aging of the Brain?

Kuchinad, A., Schweinhardt, P., Seminowicz, D. A., Wood, P. B., Chizh, B. A., & Bushnell, M. C. (2007) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.0098-07.2007 · Cited by 613 · see citing works

Neural correlates of interindividual differences in the subjective experience of pain

Coghill, R. C., McHaffie, J. G., & Yen, Y.-F. (2003) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1430684100 · Cited by 601 · see citing works

Imaging attentional modulation of pain in the periaqueductal gray in humans

Tracey, I., Ploghaus, A., Gati, J. S., Clare, S., Smith, S., Menon, R. S., & Matthews, P. M. (2002) · The Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.22-07-02748.2002 · Cited by 569 · see citing works

Pain matrices and neuropathic pain matrices: A review

Garcı́a-Larrea, L., & Peyron, R. (2013) · Pain · doi:10.1016/j.pain.2013.09.001 · Cited by 567 · see citing works

Conditioned pain modulation predicts duloxetine efficacy in painful diabetic neuropathy

Yarnitsky, D., Granot, M., Nahman‐Averbuch, H., Khamaisi, M., & Granovsky, Y. (2012) · Pain · doi:10.1016/j.pain.2012.02.021 · Cited by 561 · see citing works

A multisensory investigation of the functional significance of the “pain matrix”

Mouraux, A., Diukova, A., Lee, M., Wise, R. G., & Iannetti, G. D. (2010) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.09.084 · Cited by 556 · see citing works

Predicting Value of Pain and Analgesia: Nucleus Accumbens Response to Noxious Stimuli Changes in the Presence of Chronic Pain

Baliki, M. N., Geha, P., Fields, H. L., & Apkarian, A. V. (2010) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2010.03.002 · Cited by 549 · see citing works

Direct evidence for spinal cord involvement in placebo analgesia

Eippert, F., Finsterbusch, J., Bingel, U., & Büchel, C. (2009) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1180142 · Cited by 512 · see citing works

Critical role of nociceptor plasticity in chronic pain

Reichling, D. B., & Levine, J. D. (2009) · Trends in Neurosciences · doi:10.1016/j.tins.2009.07.007 · Cited by 495 · see citing works

Reward Circuitry Activation by Noxious Thermal Stimuli

Becerra, L. R., Breiter, H. C., Wise, R. A., González, R., & Borsook, D. (2001) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/s0896-6273(01)00533-5 · Cited by 489 · see citing works

Histone modification: cause or cog?

Henikoff, S., & Shilatifard, A. (2011) · Trends in Genetics · doi:10.1016/j.tig.2011.06.006 · Cited by 482 · see citing works

On the Immortality of Television Sets: "Function" in the Human Genome According to the Evolution-Free Gospel of ENCODE

Graur, D., Zheng, Y., Price, N. C., Azevedo, R. B. R., Zufall, R. A., & Elhaik, E. (2013) · Genome Biology and Evolution · doi:10.1093/gbe/evt028 · Cited by 482 · see citing works

Neonatal maternal separation alters stress-induced responses to viscerosomatic nociceptive stimuli in rat

Coutinho, S. V., Plotsky, P. M., Sablad, M., Miller, J. C., Zhou, H., Bayati, A. I., McRoberts, J. A., & Mayer, E. A. (2002) · American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology · doi:10.1152/ajpgi.00240.2001 · Cited by 456 · see citing works

Psychophysical and functional imaging evidence supporting the presence of central sensitization in a cohort of osteoarthritis patients

Gwilym, S. E., Keltner, J. R., Warnaby, C. E., Carr, A. J., Chizh, B. A., Chessell, I. P., & Tracey, I. (2009) · Arthritis Care & Research · doi:10.1002/art.24837 · Cited by 431 · see citing works

Identification of new susceptibility loci for osteoarthritis (arcOGEN): a genome-wide association study

Zeggini, E. (2012) · The Lancet · doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(12)60681-3 · Cited by 412 · see citing works

Fibromyalgia patients show an abnormal dopamine response to pain

Wood, P. B., Schweinhardt, P., Jaeger, E., Dagher, A., Hakyemez, H., Rabiner, E. A., Bushnell, M. C., & Chizh, B. A. (2007) · European Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05623.x · Cited by 406 · see citing works

Functional Diversity of DNA Methyltransferase Inhibitors in Human Cancer Cell Lines

Stresemann, C., Brueckner, B., Musch, T., Stopper, H., & Lyko, F. (2006) · Cancer Research · doi:10.1158/0008-5472.can-05-2821 · Cited by 385 · see citing works

Pronociceptive and Antinociceptive Effects of Estradiol through Endogenous Opioid Neurotransmission in Women

Smith, Y. R., Stohler, C. S., Nichols, T. E., Bueller, J. A., Koeppe, R. A., & Zubieta, J. (2006) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.5223-05.2006 · Cited by 377 · see citing works

The A118G single nucleotide polymorphism of the μ-opioid receptor gene (OPRM1) is associated with pressure pain sensitivity in humans

Fillingim, R. B., Kaplan, L., Staud, R. M., Ness, T. J., Glover, T. L., Campbell, C. M., Mogil, J. S., & Wallace, M. R. (2005) · Journal of Pain · doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2004.11.008 · Cited by 362 · see citing works

Genetically determined P2X7 receptor pore formation regulates variability in chronic pain sensitivity

Sorge, R. E., Trang, T., Dorfman, R., Smith, S. B., Beggs, S., Ritchie, J., Austin, J., Zaykin, D. V., Meulen, H. V., Costigan, M., et al. (2012) · Nature Medicine · doi:10.1038/nm.2710 · Cited by 360 · see citing works

Neurological perspectives on voltage-gated sodium channels

Eijkelkamp, N., Linley, J. E., Baker, M. D., Minett, M. S., Cregg, R., Werdehausen, R., Rugiero, F., & Wood, J. (2012) · Brain · doi:10.1093/brain/aws225 · Cited by 359 · see citing works

NGF as a mediator of inflammatory pain

McMahon, S. B. (1996) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.1996.0039 · Cited by 332 · see citing works

Pain genetics: past, present and future

Mogil, J. S. (2012) · Trends in Genetics · doi:10.1016/j.tig.2012.02.004 · Cited by 318 · see citing works

Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies new endometriosis risk loci

Nyholt, D. R., Low, S.-K., Anderson, C. A., Painter, J. N., Uno, S., Morris, A. P., MacGregor, S., Gordon, S. D., Henders, A. K., Martin, N. G., et al. (2012) · Nature Genetics · doi:10.1038/ng.2445 · Cited by 315 · see citing works

Brain function and chromatin plasticity

Dulac, C. G. (2010) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature09231 · Cited by 299 · see citing works

Prestimulus functional connectivity determines pain perception in humans

Ploner, M., Lee, M., Wiech, K., Bingel, U., & Tracey, I. (2009) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0906186106 · Cited by 297 · see citing works

A Role for Repressive Histone Methylation in Cocaine-Induced Vulnerability to Stress

Covington, H. E., Maze, I., Sun, H., Bomze, H. M., DeMaio, K. D., Wu, E. Y., Dietz, D. M., Lobo, M. K., Ghose, S., Mouzon, E., et al. (2011) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2011.06.007 · Cited by 289 · see citing works

Influences of laboratory environment on behavior

Chesler, E. J., Wilson, S. G., Lariviere, W. R., Rodriguez‐Zas, S. L., & Mogil, J. S. (2002) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nn1102-1101 · Cited by 275 · see citing works

Neonatal pain-related stress, functional cortical activity and visual-perceptual abilities in school-age children born at extremely low gestational age

Doesburg, S. M., Chau, C. M. Y., Cheung, T., Moiseev, A., Ribary, U., Herdman, A. T., Miller, S. P., Cepeda, I. L., Synnes, A. R., & GRUNAU, R. E. (2013) · Pain · doi:10.1016/j.pain.2013.04.009 · Cited by 272 · see citing works

Chronic Pain: Emerging Evidence for the Involvement of Epigenetics

Denk, F., & McMahon, S. B. (2012) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2012.01.012 · Cited by 267 · see citing works

Brain white matter structural properties predict transition to chronic pain

Mansour, A. R., Baliki, M. N., Huang, L., Torbey, S., Herrmann, K. M., Schnitzer, T. J., & Apkarian, A. V. (2013) · Pain · doi:10.1016/j.pain.2013.06.044 · Cited by 263 · see citing works

Priming of adult pain responses by neonatal pain experience: maintenance by central neuroimmune activity

Beggs, S., Currie, G., Salter, M. W., Fitzgerald, M., & Walker, S. M. (2011) · Brain · doi:10.1093/brain/awr288 · Cited by 219 · see citing works

Engagement of descending inhibition from the rostral ventromedial medulla protects against chronic neuropathic pain

Felice, M. D., Sanoja, R., Wang, R., Vera–Portocarrero, L. P., Oyarzo, J. N., King, T. E., Ossipov, M. H., Vanderah, T. W., Lai, J. Y., Dussor, G. O., et al. (2011) · Pain · doi:10.1016/j.pain.2011.06.008 · Cited by 215 · see citing works

Reduced insular γ‐aminobutyric acid in fibromyalgia

Foerster, B. R., Petrou, M., Edden, R. A. E., Sundgren, P. C., Schmidt‐Wilcke, T., Lowe, S. E., Harte, S. E., Clauw, D. J., & Harris, R. E. (2012) · Arthritis & Rheumatism · doi:10.1002/art.33339 · Cited by 212 · see citing works

The anatomy of the mesolimbic reward system: a link between personality and the placebo analgesic response

Schweinhardt, P., Seminowicz, D. A., Jaeger, E., Duncan, G. H., & Bushnell, M. C. (2009) · The Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.5634-08.2009 · Cited by 210 · see citing works

Differential effects of the APOE genotype on brain function across the lifespan

Filippini, N., Ebmeier, K. P., MacIntosh, B. J., Trachtenberg, A. J., Frisoni, G. B., Wilcock, G. K., Beckmann, C. F., Smith, S. M., Matthews, P. M., & Mackay, C. E. (2010) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.08.009 · Cited by 195 · see citing works

Dysmenorrhoea is associated with central changes in otherwise healthy women

Vincent, K., Warnaby, C. E., Stagg, C. J., Moore, J. A., Kennedy, S. M., & Tracey, I. (2011) · Pain · doi:10.1016/j.pain.2011.03.029 · Cited by 192 · see citing works

The importance of context: When relative relief renders pain pleasant

Leknes, S., Berna, C., Lee, M., Snyder, G. D., Biele, G., & Tracey, I. (2012) · Pain · doi:10.1016/j.pain.2012.11.018 · Cited by 187 · see citing works

Cerebral processing of pain in school-aged children with neonatal nociceptive input: An exploratory fMRI study

Hohmeister, J., Kröll, A., Wollgarten-Hadamek, I., Zohsel, K., Demirakça, S., Flor, H., & Hermann, C. (2010) · Pain · doi:10.1016/j.pain.2010.04.004 · Cited by 186 · see citing works

Contribution of chronic pain and neuroticism to abnormal forebrain gray matter in patients with temporomandibular disorder

Moayedi, M., Weissman‐Fogel, I., Crawley, A. P., Goldberg, M. B., Freeman, B. V., Tenenbaum, H. C., & Davis, K. D. (2010) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.12.013 · Cited by 176 · see citing works

Behavioural relevance of variation in white matter microstructure.

Johansen-Berg, H. (2010) · Current Opinion in Neurology · doi:10.1097/wco.0b013e32833b7631 · Cited by 175 · see citing works

HDAC inhibitors attenuate the development of hypersensitivity in models of neuropathic pain

Denk, F., Huang, W. L., Sidders, B. S., Bithell, A., Crow, M., Grist, J., Sharma, S., Ziemek, D., Rice, A. S. C., Buckley, N. J., et al. (2013) · Pain · doi:10.1016/j.pain.2013.05.021 · Cited by 172 · see citing works

Insular cortex mediates increased pain tolerance in yoga practitioners

Villemure, C., eko, M., Cotton, V. A., & Bushnell, M. C. (2014) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bht124 · Cited by 163 · see citing works

Chronic opioid use is associated with increased DNA methylation correlating with increased clinical pain

Doehring, A., Oertel, B. G., Sittl, R., & Lötsch, J. (2012) · Pain · doi:10.1016/j.pain.2012.06.011 · Cited by 159 · see citing works

Identifying Brain Activity Specifically Related to the Maintenance and Perceptual Consequence of Central Sensitization in Humans

Lee, M., Zambreanu, L., Menon, D. K., & Tracey, I. (2008) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.2638-08.2008 · Cited by 156 · see citing works

Enhanced Presurgical Pain Temporal Summation Response Predicts Post-Thoracotomy Pain Intensity During the Acute Postoperative Phase

Weissman‐Fogel, I., Granovsky, Y., Crispel, Y., Ben‐Nun, A., Best, L. A., Yarnitsky, D., & Granot, M. (2009) · Journal of Pain · doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2008.12.009 · Cited by 154 · see citing works

Facilitation of Pain in the Human Spinal Cord by Nocebo Treatment

Geuter, S., & Büchel, C. (2013) · The Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.2191-13.2013 · Cited by 152 · see citing works

Peripheral Nerve Injury Is Associated with Chronic, Reversible Changes in Global DNA Methylation in the Mouse Prefrontal Cortex

Tajerian, M., Alvarado, S. G., Millecamps, M., Vachon, P., Crosby, C., Bushnell, M. C., Moshe Szyf, A., & Stone, L. S. (2013) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055259 · Cited by 147 · see citing works

Novel genetic variants associated with lumbar disc degeneration in northern Europeans: a meta-analysis of 4600 subjects

Williams, F. M. K., Bansal, A. T., van Meurs, J. B. J., Bell, J. T., Meulenbelt, I., Suri, P., Rivadeneira, F., Sambrook, P. N., Albert Hofman, D., Bierma‐Zeinstra, S., et al. (2012) · Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases · doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2012-201551 · Cited by 134 · see citing works

Cortical thickness correlates of pain and temperature sensitivity

Erpelding, N., Moayedi, M., & Davis, K. D. (2012) · Pain · doi:10.1016/j.pain.2012.03.012 · Cited by 133 · see citing works

Baseline reward circuitry activity and trait reward responsiveness predict expression of opioid analgesia in healthy subjects

Wanigasekera, V., Lee, M., Rogers, R., Kong, Y., Leknes, S., Andersson, J., & Tracey, I. (2012) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1120201109 · Cited by 131 · see citing works

Generation of a Pain Memory in the Primary Afferent Nociceptor Triggered by PKCε Activation of CPEB

Bogen, O., Alessandri‐Haber, N., Chu, C. E., Gear, R. W., & Levine, J. D. (2012) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.5138-11.2012 · Cited by 128 · see citing works

The changing balance of brainstem–spinal cord modulation of pain processing over the first weeks of rat postnatal life

Hathway, G. J., Koch, S. C., Low, L. A., & Fitzgerald, M. (2009) · The Journal of Physiology · doi:10.1113/jphysiol.2008.168013 · Cited by 126 · see citing works

DNA Methylation of SPARC and Chronic Low Back Pain

Tajerian, M., Alvarado, S. G., Millecamps, M., Dashwood, T., Anderson, K. M., Haglund, L., Ouellet, J. A., Szyf, M., & Stone, L. S. (2011) · Molecular Pain · doi:10.1186/1744-8069-7-65 · Cited by 126 · see citing works

Genome-wide association study meta-analysis of chronic widespread pain: evidence for involvement of the 5p15.2 region

Peters, M. J., Broer, L., Willemen, H. L. D. M., Eiríksdóttir, G., Hocking, L. J., Holliday, K. L., Horan, M. A., Meulenbelt, I., Neogi, T., Popham, M., et al. (2012) · Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases · doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2012-201742 · Cited by 121 · see citing works

White matter abnormalities in irritable bowel syndrome and relation to individual factors

Chen, J. Y.-W., Blankstein, U., Diamant, N. E., & Davis, K. D. (2011) · Brain Research · doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2011.03.069 · Cited by 115 · see citing works

Intrathecal 5-azacytidine inhibits global DNA methylation and methyl- CpG-binding protein 2 expression and alleviates neuropathic pain in rats following chronic constriction injury

Wang, Y., Liu, C., Guo, Q., Yan, J.-Q., Zhu, X., Huang, C., & Zou, W. (2011) · Brain Research · doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2011.08.040 · Cited by 114 · see citing works

Genome-wide association study identifies a potent locus associated with human opioid sensitivity

Nishizawa, D., Fukuda, K., Kasai, S., Hasegawa, J., Aoki, Y., Nishi, A., Saita, N., Koukita, Y., Nagashima, M., Katoh, R., et al. (2012) · Molecular Psychiatry · doi:10.1038/mp.2012.164 · Cited by 113 · see citing works

Menstrual pain is associated with rapid structural alterations in the brain

Tu, C., Niddam, D. M., Yeh, T., Lirng, J.-F., Cheng, C.-M., Chou, C.-C., Chao, H., & Hsieh, J. (2013) · Pain · doi:10.1016/j.pain.2013.05.022 · Cited by 111 · see citing works

Sensory Neuron Downregulation of the Kv9.1 Potassium Channel Subunit Mediates Neuropathic Pain following Nerve Injury

Tsantoulas, C., Zhu, L., Shaifta, Y., Grist, J., Ward, J. P. T., Raouf, R., Michael, G. J., & McMahon, S. B. (2012) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.3561-12.2012 · Cited by 108 · see citing works

Brain imaging reveals that engagement of descending inhibitory pain pathways in healthy women in a low endogenous estradiol state varies with testosterone

Vincent, K., Warnaby, C. E., Stagg, C. J., Moore, J. A., Kennedy, S. M., & Tracey, I. (2012) · Pain · doi:10.1016/j.pain.2012.11.016 · Cited by 102 · see citing works

The Expression of Spinal Methyl-CpG-Binding Protein 2, DNA Methyltransferases and Histone Deacetylases is Modulated in Persistent Pain States

Tochiki, K. K., Cunningham, J., Hunt, S. P., & Géranton, S. M. (2012) · Molecular Pain · doi:10.1186/1744-8069-8-14 · Cited by 96 · see citing works

Linking MECP2 and pain sensitivity: The example of Rett syndrome

Downs, J. A., Géranton, S. M., Bebbington, A., Jacoby, P. A., Bahi‐Buisson, N., Ravine, D., & Leonard, H. (2010) · American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A · doi:10.1002/ajmg.a.33314 · Cited by 96 · see citing works

Heritability of chronic pain in 2195 extended families

Hocking, L. J., Scotland, G., Morris, A. D., Dominiczak, A. F., Porteous, D. J., & Smith, B. H. (2012) · European Journal of Pain · doi:10.1002/j.1532-2149.2011.00095.x · Cited by 91 · see citing works

Sex differences in emotion-related cognitive processes in irritable bowel syndrome and healthy control subjects

Labus, J. S., Gupta, A., Coveleskie, K., Tillisch, K., Kilpatrick, L. A., Jarcho, J. M., Feier, N. A., Bueller, J. A., Stains, J., Smith, S. E., et al. (2013) · Pain · doi:10.1016/j.pain.2013.06.024 · Cited by 86 · see citing works

Neural underpinnings of behavioural strategies that prioritize either cognitive task performance or pain

Erpelding, N., & Davis, K. D. (2013) · Pain · doi:10.1016/j.pain.2013.06.030 · Cited by 85 · see citing works

A critical period in the supraspinal control of pain: opioid-dependent changes in brainstem rostroventral medulla function in preadolescence

Hathway, G. J., Vega‐Avelaira, D., & Fitzgerald, M. (2012) · Pain · doi:10.1016/j.pain.2011.11.011 · Cited by 83 · see citing works

Descending Facilitation Maintains Long-Term Spontaneous Neuropathic Pain

Wang, R., King, T. E., Felice, M. D., Guo, W., Ossipov, M. H., & Porreca, F. (2013) · Journal of Pain · doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2013.02.011 · Cited by 82 · see citing works

“Seq-ing” Insights into the Epigenetics of Neuronal Gene Regulation

Telese, F., Gamliel, A., Skowronska‐Krawczyk, D., García-Bassets, I., & Rosenfeld, M. G. (2013) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2013.01.034 · Cited by 76 · see citing works

Early-life stress induces visceral hypersensitivity in mice

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Replication and meta‐analysis of common variants identifies a genome‐wide significant locus in migraine

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Genes and epigenetic processes as prospective pain targets

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The Emergence of Adolescent Onset Pain Hypersensitivity following Neonatal Nerve Injury

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