Beyond trial-and-error: Individualizing therapeutic transcranial neuromodulation for chronic pain

European Journal of Pain 2023 Oct;27(9):1065-1083.  doi: 10.1002/ejp.2164. Epub 2023 Aug 19. Daniel Ciampi de Andrade, Luís García-Larrea Abstract Background and objective: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) applied to the motor cortex provides supplementary relief for some individuals with chronic pain who are

Pain in Parkinson disease: mechanistic substrates, main classification systems, and how to make sense out of them

Pain 2023 Nov 1;164(11):2425-2434. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002968. Epub 2023 Jun 6. Daniel Ciampi de Andrade, Veit Mylius, Santiago Perez-Lloret, Rubens G Cury, Kirsty Bannister, Xavier Moisset, Gabriel Taricani Kubota, Nanna B Finnerup, Didier Bouhassira, Kallol Ray Chaudhuri, Thomas Graven-Nielsen, Rolf-Detlef Treede Abstract Parkinson disease (PD) affects up to 2% of the general

Real-life study of the use of oto-acoustic emissions in the diagnosis of intracranial hypotension

Revue Neurologique 2023 Oct 10:S0035-3787(23)01046-9.doi: 10.1016/j.neurol.2023.07.014. Online ahead of print. J Pascaud, S Redon, M Elzière, A Donnet Abstract Background: The diagnosis of spontaneous or post-traumatic intracranial hypotension (IH) mainly relies on clinical features and neuro-imaging. However, the results of brain and spine

Brain network functional connectivity changes in patients with anterior knee pain: a resting-state fMRI exploratory study

European radiology experimental 2023 Oct 9;7(1):60.  doi: 10.1186/s41747-023-00378-1. Vicente Sanchis-Alfonso, María Beser-Robles, Amadeo Ten-Esteve, Cristina Ramírez-Fuentes, Ángel Alberich-Bayarri, Raúl Espert, Luis García-Larrea, Luis Martí-Bonmatí  Abstract Background: This study investigates the functional brain connectivity in patients with anterior knee pain (AKP). While biomechanical models are frequently employed to investigate