Somatic symptoms like pain, itch, and fatigue, can negatively affect daily functioning. In the
acute phase, these somatic symptoms are adaptive as they push the body to protect itself …

Abstract Purpose of Review It has been clear for decades that psychological factors often
contribute to mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) outcome, but an emerging literature has …

Big data and machine learning techniques offer opportunities to investigate the effects of
psychological factors on pain outcomes. Nevertheless, these advances can only deliver …

Background Peer support for chronic pain is increasingly taking place on social media via
social networking communities. Several theories on the development and maintenance of …

Background Computational linguistics allows an understanding of language structure and
different forms of expression of patients' perceptions. Aims The aims of this study were (i) to …

In this article, we use the example of pain exposure therapy to illustrate how behavioral pain
treatments can be systematically personalized following the principles of functional analysis …

Primary chronic pain is a major contributor to disability worldwide, with an estimated
prevalence of 20–33% of the world's population. The high socio-economic impact of …

The heterogeneity of chronic pain and stagnating improvements in treatment effectiveness
have prompted calls for a shift toward personalized and process-based approaches to the …

We present a framework for the study of states of chronic pain and transitions between those
states. We capture in the framework the dynamic nature of pain: people live with pain that …

The 3 recent articles in PAIN by Loeser, Finnerup et al., and Vlaeyen et al. encouraging us
clinicians to rethink acute and chronic pain relationship and pertinent etiological factors …