Jeffrey D. Kennedy

TL;DR: A new approach of subgrouping patients with peripheral neuropathic pain of different etiologies according to intrinsic sensory profiles is presented, which may be related to pathophysiological mechanisms and may be useful in clinical trial design to enrich the study population for treatment responders.

TL;DR: Findings show that a single night of TSD is able to induce generalized hyperalgesia and to increase State Anxiety scores, and TSD selectively modulated nociception, since detection thresholds of non‐nociceptive modalities remained unchanged.

TL;DR: To achieve the goal of finding effective new treatments for patients with pain, the pain field needs to deal with these challenging issues, and greater transparency of reporting should be driven by scientists, journal editors, reviewers, and grant funders.

TL;DR: This unique multicentre approach provided high-quality evidence evaluating suppressed burrowing as robust and reproducible, supporting its use as tool to infer the global effect of pain on rodents.

TL;DR: Suggestions for inclusion criteria of healthy volunteers into QST-based trials describe a 2-level approach including standardized questionnaires enabling the collection of relevant information on sociodemographic data, medical history, current health status, coping strategies in dealing with pain, and the motivation of the volunteer to participate in the study.