The purpose of this clinical update is to provide an overview of the fear of needles and
needle phobia in children and adolescents including characteristics and diagnosis …

Sex differences in response to experimental pain are commonly reported in systematic
reviews in the adult literature. The objective of the present research was to conduct a …

The Quantitative Sensory Testing (QST) protocol of the German research network on
neuropathic pain (DFNS) encompassing all somatosensory modalities assesses the …

Background The goals of this study were to examine the trajectory of pediatric chronic
postsurgical pain (CPSP) over the first year after surgery and to identify acute postsurgical …

Objective Data suggest parents' preprocedural anxiety is related to children's acute
procedural anxiety and pain. This study examined the temporal relations among these …

The cold pressor task (CPT) is an ethical experimental pain task widely used by pediatric
pain researchers to examine a variety of important theoretical and clinical questions. The …

Objective: We aimed to examine whether the number of neonatal invasive procedures,
adjusted for other clinical and psychosocial factors, was associated with self-ratings of pain …

Long-term consequences of early infant injury upon somatosensory processing were tested
in school aged children. The aim was to test whether the long-term changes in sensitivity …

This study examined the relations between attachment styles and pain severity/depression
in adolescents. Analyses examined whether anxiety and the 3 dimensions of pain …

Social communication deficits and repetitive behaviors are established characteristics of
autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the focus of considerable study. Alterations in pain …