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Pain sensitivity risk factors for chronic TMD: descriptive data and empirically identified domains from the OPPERA case control studyJoel D Greenspan
Department of Neural and Pain Sciences, and Brotman Facial Pain Center, University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
J Pain 12:T61-74. 2011..Variability in the magnitude and consistency of case-control differences highlight the need to consider multiple testing measures to adequately assess pain processing alterations in chronic pain conditions...
Sex differences in the cerebral BOLD signal response to painful heat stimuliEric A Moulton
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Maryland Medical School, 666 W Baltimore St, Rm 5 A 14, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 291:R257-67. 2006..Sex differences in baseline cerebral blood flow may contribute to the BOLD signal differences observed in this study...- Studying sex and gender differences in pain and analgesia: a consensus reportJoel D Greenspan
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Maryland Dental School, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201 1510, USA
Pain 132:S26-45. 2007..and thought-provoking guide for future research on sex and gender differences in pain and analgesia, both for those currently working in this field as well as those still wondering, "Do I really need to study females?".. - Quantitative somatic sensory testing and functional imaging of the response to painful stimuli before and after cingulotomy for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)Joel D Greenspan
Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Dentistry, and Program in Neuroscience, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
Eur J Pain 12:990-9. 2008.... - Temporal summation of pain characterizes women but not men with temporomandibular disordersEleni Sarlani
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Orofac Pain 21:309-17. 2007..To examine differences in temporal summation of mechanically evoked pain between women and men suffering from chronic pain associated with temporomandibular disorders (TMD), as well as between male TMD patients and healthy controls... - Age-related changes in nociceptive processing in the human brainRaimi L Quiton
Program in Neuroscience, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1097:175-8. 2007..Gray matter volumes in S1 and aINS were significantly smaller for the older group (P = 0.02 and 0.0001, respectively), suggesting reduced processing capacity in these regions that might account for smaller pain-related fMRI responses... - Across- and within-session variability of ratings of painful contact heat stimuliRaimi L Quiton
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Dental School, and Program in Neuroscience, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Pain 137:245-56. 2008..Taken together, these findings suggest that VAS ratings of painful contact heat are relatively stable over time but the variability of these ratings is significantly impacted by the perceived intensity of the stimulus... - Sex differences in endogenous pain modulation by distracting and painful conditioning stimulationRaimi L Quiton
Program in Neuroscience, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Dental School, Research Center for Neuroendocrine Influences on Pain, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
Pain 132:S134-49. 2007.... 
Differential brain activation associated with laser-evoked burning and pricking pain: An event-related fMRI studyDieuwke S Veldhuijzen
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Dental School, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
Pain 141:104-13. 2009..These differential activation patterns suggest preferential importance of Adelta-fiber signals versus C-fiber signals for these specific brain regions...- The role of the thalamus in painFrederick A Lenz
Department of Neurosurgery, Meyer 8-181, Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21287-7713, USA
Suppl Clin Neurophysiol 57:50-61. 2004 - Why look in the brain for answers to temporomandibular disorder pain?Eleni Sarlani
Department of Diagnostic Sciences and Pathology, Dental School, and UMB Research Center for Neuroendocrine Influences on Pain, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Cells Tissues Organs 180:69-75. 2005.... - Gender differences in temporal summation of mechanically evoked painEleni Sarlani
Department of Oral and Craniofacial Biological Sciences, Dental School, University of Maryland, Room 5 A 14, 666 W Baltimore Street, Baltimore 21201, USA
Pain 97:163-9. 2002..These findings indicate that temporal summation of mechanically evoked pain is higher in females compared to males, is stimulation frequency dependent and is centrally mediated... - Thermosensory intensity and affect throughout the perceptible rangeJoel D Greenspan
Department of Oral and Craniofacial Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Somatosens Mot Res 20:19-26. 2003..These differences could be exploited to differentiate processing relevant to discriminative vs affective components of somesthetic perception, in both the innocuous and noxious ranges... - Facial pain as first manifestation of lung cancer: a case of lung cancer-related cluster headache and a review of the literatureEleni Sarlani
Department of Oral Sciences, Brotman Facial Pain Center, Dental School, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 21201, USA
J Orofac Pain 17:262-7. 2003..Radiotherapy and tumor resection with vagotomy are very effective in aborting the facial pain. Thus, lung cancer should be included in the differential diagnosis of facial pain that is atypical and/or refractory to treatment... - Gender and laterality differences in thermosensation throughout the perceptible rangeEleni Sarlani
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Maryland Dental School, and Program in Neuroscience, University of Maryland, Room 5 A 14, 666 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Pain 106:9-18. 2003..Of particular note is the sex difference for affective but not intensive ratings of innocuous temperatures, revealing sex differences in thermal perception outside the nociceptive system... - Evidence for up-regulated central nociceptive processing in patients with masticatory myofascial painEleni Sarlani
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Research Center for Neuroendocrine Influences on Pain, Brotman Facial Pain Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
J Orofac Pain 18:41-55. 2004..The aim of this study was to test this theory by assessing differences, between myalgic TMD patients and pain-free controls, in temporal summation of mechanically evoked pain and aftersensations following repetitive noxious stimulation... - Sex differences in temporal summation of pain and aftersensations following repetitive noxious mechanical stimulationEleni Sarlani
University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, MD, USA
Pain 109:115-23. 2004.... - Lesions limited to the human thalamic principal somatosensory nucleus (ventral caudal) are associated with loss of cold sensations and central painJong H Kim
Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 21287 7713, USA
J Neurosci 27:4995-5004. 2007..Therefore, there are modality-specific subnuclear structures in the posterior thalamus, but lesions of Vc not involving VMpo are sufficient to impair cold sensibility and to produce CPSP... - Imaging central pain syndromesDieuwke S Veldhuijzen
Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Meyer Building 8 181, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Curr Pain Headache Rep 11:183-9. 2007..The small number of studies to date precludes definitive conclusions, but the recent findings provide information that either supports or refutes current hypotheses and can serve to generate new ideas... - Reliability estimation of grouped functional imaging data using penalized maximum likelihoodRao P Gullapalli
Department of Radiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, 21201, USA
Magn Reson Med 53:1126-34. 2005..Furthermore, this method potentially can be used to assess the longitudinal effect of treatment therapies within a group... - Chronic paroxysmal hemicrania: a case report and review of the literatureEleni Sarlani
Department of Oral and Craniofacial Biological Sciences, Brotman Facial Pain Center, Dental School, University of Maryland, Room # 2-A-15, 666 West Baltimore St, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
J Orofac Pain 17:74-8. 2003..Accordingly, dentists should be familiar with CPH in order to avoid unnecessary, irreversible dental treatment. A case is presented to highlight many of the features of CPH... - Evidence for generalized hyperalgesia in temporomandibular disorders patientsEleni Sarlani
Department of Oral and Craniofacial Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Dental School, University of Maryland, 666 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Pain 102:221-6. 2003 - Neurons involved in the exteroceptive function of painDonald D Price
Departments of Oral Surgery and Neuroscience, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
Pain 106:215-9. 2003
Research Grants
- CEREBRAL PROCESSING AND HUMAN SOMESTHETIC PERCEPTIONJoel Greenspan; Fiscal Year: 2003..pathological conditions. ..
- ORWH: SCOR on Sex and Gender Factors Affecting Women's *Joel Greenspan; Fiscal Year: 2006..The pathophysiology of TMD is poorly understood, but several hypotheses based on sex-related factors have been proposed. Two of the proposed projects (#1and #3) direct efforts explicitly to evaluate such hypotheses. ..