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Pain

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, serving as a protective warning system but also, when persistent, becoming a disease in its own right. It is broadly classified as nociceptive (arising from activation of peripheral nociceptors), neuropathic (ar…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 30× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2997-2086 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, serving as a protective warning system but also, when persistent, becoming a disease in its own right. It is broadly classified as nociceptive (arising from activation of peripheral nociceptors), neuropathic (arising from lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system), and nociplastic (arising from altered central processing), and it is further divided by duration into acute, chronic, and cancer pain. The underlying neurobiology involves peripheral transduction, spinal modulation, ascending and descending pathways, and central plasticity, including synaptic and somatic changes in regions such as the dentate gyrus and endogenous opioid signaling. Pain management is the clinical discipline devoted to its assessment and treatment, employing pharmacological agents, interventional procedures, neuromodulation, and non-pharmacological strategies. Research themes include chronic pain after thoracic surgery and transplantation, high-dose capsaicin and novel toxins for refractory pain, auricular vagus nerve stimulation and cytokine modulation, music-induced analgesia through endogenous opioids, musculoskeletal and neuralgic pain, the interface of chronic pain with mood and end-of-life attitudes, and clinical decision-support tools that integrate analgesic dosing with pain trends. The journal publishes peer-reviewed clinical, mechanistic, and translational research on pain and its multimodal management across diverse conditions and populations.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

Pain between Psyche and Soma in Uro-Andrology

Pruneti CarloCorresponding author
Dept. of Medicine and Surgery, Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychophysiology and Clinical Neuropsychology Labs., University of Parma, Italy.
Exact topic International Journal of Pain Management Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2688-5328.ijp-20-3386

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 30 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Fetal Surgery (ISSN 2997-2086).

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