Fifty years of pain research and clinical advances: highlights and key trends

Allan I Basbaum; Troels S Jensen; Francis J Keefe

doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003058

Fifty years of pain research and clinical advances: highlights and key trends

Pain. 2023 Nov 1;164(11S):S11-S15. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003058.

Authors

Allan I Basbaum¹, Troels S Jensen², Francis J Keefe³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anatomy, University California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.
² Danish Pain Research Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hosital, Aarhus N, Denmark.
³ Duke Pain Prevention and Treatment Research Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States.

Abstract

This article highlights advances in basic science preclinical pain research, clinical research, and psychological research occurring over the 50 years since the International Association for the Study of Pain was founded. It presents important findings and key trends in these 3 areas of pain science: basic science preclinical research, clinical research, and psychological research.

MeSH terms

Humans
Pain*
Research*

Abstract

MeSH terms

Grants and funding