Resources
For the Pain Researcher
Apply to Serve on an NIH Grant Review Study Section
NIH Pain Program Announcements
http://painconsortium.nih.gov/funding.html
Psychological Aspects of Persistent Pain: Current State of the Science
An overview of current research, this article by Dr. Francis J. Keefe et al includes a review of recent findings addressing psychological factors associated with poor or improved adjustment to pain. Another section of the review looks at behavioral and psychosocial interventions for persistent pain. The review ends with a discussion of how to advance this area of research.
This article is reproduced with permission of the American Pain Society copyright © 2004.
Keefe, FJ, Rumble, ME, Scipio, CD, Giordano, LA and Peri, LM (2004) Psychological Aspects of Persistent Pain: Current State of the Science. The Journal of Pain 5 (4): 195-211.
How to Move Pain and Symptom Research from the Margin to the Mainstream
According to a recent commentary by Dr. Mitchell Max (The Journal of Pain, vol 4, no 7, p 355-360) "pain accounts for more than 20% of medical visits and 10% of prescription drug sales, but only .6% of National Institutes of Health research funds." Dr Max further states that "clinical pain research remains clustered in the few clinical specialties of the founders of the field - neurology, anesthesia, cancer and dentistry. Remarkable recent advances in basic science have not been widely applied by cardiologists, gastroenterologists, urologists, and gynecologists."
This article is reproduced with permission of the American Pain Society copyright © 2003.
Max, M. B. (2003). How to Move Pain and Symptom Research From the Margin to the Mainstream.
The Journal of Pain 4 (7): 355-360.
Web Links of Interest
NINDS
Study Links Chronic Pain to Signals in the Brain (January 2003)
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/news_and_events/news_articles/ news_article_chronic_pain.htm