Elena K. Krumova

TL;DR: Somatosensory profiles with different combinations of loss and gain are shared across the major neuropathic pain syndromes, including thermal and mechanical hyperalgesias, which were most frequent in complex regional pain syndrome and peripheral nerve injury, allodynia in postherpetic neuralgia.

TL;DR: This report targeted two further problems: how to adjust for age‐related sensory changes, and how to compare groups of patients with the reference database, and presented a simple way of calculating method B for data that have been z‐normalized.

TL;DR: Quantitative sensory testing (QST) is a psychophysical method used to quantify somatosensory function in response to controlled stimuli in healthy subjects and patients as discussed by the authors, which has not gained a large acceptance among clinicians for many reasons, and in significant part because of the lack of information about standards for performing QST, its potential utility and interpretation of results.

TL;DR: In the mostly pain‐free patients signs of an enhanced central hyperexcitability are even more pronounced than usually found in chronic pain patients, indicating common mechanisms in depressive disorder and chronic pain in accordance with the assumption of non‐pain associated mechanisms in Depression.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors determined patterns of sensory signs in complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) type I and II and peripheral nerve injury (PNI) patients with upper-limb CRPS-I (n=298), CRPS II (n = 46), and PNI (n/72) were examined with quantitative sensory testing according to the protocol of the German Research Network on Neuropathic Pain.