Over the past years, advances in pain research have led to important steps towards improving our understanding of this disabling condition, leading to a better quality of life for patients. Nevertheless, designing, testing, developing and deploying novel treatments for people with pain are undoubtedly challenging tasks, given the long way from the laboratory bench to the bedside. On the opposite way round, new insights from clinical observations, primarily brain imaging and electrical stimulation and neurophysiology recording of the somatosensory system, have shaped modern concepts around the anatomy and the physiology of chronic pain.
This Collection aims at creating an insightful and multi-disciplinary forum of discussion about the most recent advances in the neuroanatomy, the physiology and the pharmacology of pain. The contributions are expected to inform and add to evidence of pain processing pathways and pain treatments, in an attempt to identify novel and more suitable therapeutic targets.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Neurophysiology and neuroanatomy of acute and chronic pain. May also include pain chronification
• Comorbidity in chronic pain: addiction, depression, anxiety, sleep disorders and implication for management
• Clinical neurophysiology of pain
• Neuromodulation in pain medicine
• Pharmacology of pain
• Clinical trials and Pain outcomes
• Non-pharmacological pain treatments
