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The association of perceived discrimination with low back painRobert R Edwards
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Pain Management Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 850 Boylston Street, Suite 302, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
J Behav Med 31:379-89. 2008....
Elevated pain sensitivity in chronic pain patients at risk for opioid misuseRobert R Edwards
Department of Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 0246, USA
J Pain 12:953-63. 2011..Indices of pain-related distress were important predictors of pain sensitivity, particularly among those patients taking opioids for pain...
Alterations in pain responses in treated and untreated patients with restless legs syndrome: associations with sleep disruptionRobert R Edwards
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Chesnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Sleep Med 12:603-9. 2011..The aim of this study was to evaluate psychophysical responses to noxious heat and pressure stimuli in both treated and untreated RLS patients, compared to matched controls...
Pain, catastrophizing, and depression in the rheumatic diseasesRobert R Edwards
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 850 Boylston Street, Suite 302, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Nat Rev Rheumatol 7:216-24. 2011..Pain, depression, and catastrophizing might all be uniquely important therapeutic targets in the multimodal management of a range of such conditions...
Moderators of the negative effects of catastrophizing in arthritisRobert R Edwards
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Pain Med 11:591-9. 2010..In this study, we investigated a variety of factors that might buffer or magnify catastrophizing's deleterious consequences among patients with RA...
Catastrophizing and depressive symptoms as prospective predictors of outcomes following total knee replacementRobert R Edwards
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, USA
Pain Res Manag 14:307-11. 2009....
Association of catastrophizing with interleukin-6 responses to acute painRobert R Edwards
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Pain Management Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Pain 140:135-44. 2008..This pathway may represent one important mechanism by which catastrophizing and other psychosocial factors shape the experience of both acute and chronic pain in a variety of settings...
Enhanced reactivity to pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritisRobert R Edwards
Department of Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Arthritis Res Ther 11:R61. 2009..In the present study, we compared psychophysical and physiological responses to standardized noxious stimulation in 19 RA patients and 21 healthy controls...
The role of sleep problems in central pain processing in rheumatoid arthritisYvonne C Lee
Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Arthritis Rheum 65:59-68. 2013..This study was undertaken to examine the level of CPM, pressure-pain threshold, and pressure-pain tolerance among RA patients compared to healthy controls...
Pain sensitivity and pain reactivity in osteoarthritisYvonne C Lee
Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 63:320-7. 2011....
Enhanced cortisol increase upon awakening is associated with greater pain ratings but not salivary cortisol or soluble tumor necrosis factor-α receptor II responses to acute painBurel R Goodin
University of Florida, Comprehensive Center for Pain Research, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
Clin J Pain 28:291-9. 2012..In addition to evoked pain ratings, this study also tested whether CAR was prospectively related with salivary cortisol and soluble tumor necrosis factor-α receptor II responses to acute pain stimulation...
Disentangling linear and nonlinear brain responses to evoked deep tissue painMarco L Loggia
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Pain 153:2140-51. 2012..Future studies should apply a similar approach using innocuous stimuli of multiple intensities to evaluate whether the response profiles reported here can also be generalized to nonpainful somatosensory processing...
The relationship between disease activity, sleep, psychiatric distress and pain sensitivity in rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional studyYvonne C Lee
Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, PBB B3, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arthritis Res Ther 11:R160. 2009..The etiology of RA pain is likely multifactorial, including both inflammatory and non-inflammatory components. In this study, we examine the association between disease activity, sleep, psychiatric distress and pain sensitivity in RA...
Integrating pain management in clinical practiceRobert N Jamison
Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Clin Psychol Med Settings 19:49-64. 2012..Finally, we offer a future look at the role of integrating pain management in clinical practice in the psychological assessment and treatment for persons with chronic pain...
Gender differences in risk factors for aberrant prescription opioid useRobert N Jamison
Pain Management Center, Departments of Anesthesia and Psychiatry, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02467, USA
J Pain 11:312-20. 2010..This study suggests that women are at greater risk to misuse opioids because of emotional issues and affective distress, whereas men tend to misuse opioids because of legal and problematic behavioral issues...
Relationship of negative affect and outcome of an opioid therapy trial among low back pain patientsRobert N Jamison
Pain Management Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pain Pract 13:173-81. 2013....
The catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) val158met polymorphism affects brain responses to repeated painful stimuliMarco L Loggia
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e27764. 2011..These findings may help explain the inconsistencies in reported findings of the impact of COMT in pain regulation...
Pretreatment psychosocial variables as predictors of outcomes following lumbar surgery and spinal cord stimulation: a systematic review and literature synthesisJames Celestin
Psychiatry Department, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pain Med 10:639-53. 2009..However, it remains unclear which, if any, variables are most predictive of pain-related treatment outcomes...
Risk factor assessment for problematic use of opioids for chronic painRobert N Jamison
Pain Management Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 27:60-80. 2013..Finally we briefly discuss the effect of opiate analgesics on cognition and review some intervention strategies for chronic pain patients...
Research Grants
- Biobehavioral Risk Factors for Persistent Pain following Total Knee ArthroplastyRobert R Edwards; Fiscal Year: 2010....
