Executive summary Every infant, child, and adolescent will experience pain at times
throughout their life. Childhood pain ranges from acute to chronic, and includes procedural …

Literature suggests that pain perception diminishes in old age. The most recent review used
search strategies conducted over a decade ago and concluded that study findings were …

Out of all the human senses, touch is the one that is most often unappreciated, and
undervalued. Yet, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of …

Recent studies describe sex and gender as critical factors conditioning the experience of
pain and the strategies to respond to it. It is now clear that men and women have different …

Background Surgery or multiple procedural interventions in extremely preterm neonates
influence neurodevelopmental outcome and may be associated with long-term changes in …

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 …

During adolescence and puberty, alterations in pain, both experimental and clinical, are
observed. In addition, adolescents undergo extensive biopsychosocial changes as they …

In recent years haptics has received considerable attention from the field of Human-
Computer Interactions (HCI) for its potential to provide more tangible and immersive …

It has become clear that tissue damage during a critical period of early life can result in long-
term changes in pain sensitivity, but the underlying mechanisms remain to be fully …

Pain is the most common symptom in chronic pancreatitis (CP) with a major impact on
quality of life. Few validated questionnaires to assess pain in CP exist, and the lack of …