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Robert R. Edwards

Researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital

Publications -  447
Citations -  27427

Robert R. Edwards is an academic researcher from Brigham and Women's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Chronic pain & Pain catastrophizing. The author has an hindex of 79, co-authored 392 publications receiving 22488 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert R. Edwards include University of Alabama at Birmingham & Stony Brook University.

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Integrated genomic characterization of endometrial carcinoma

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TL;DR: The genomic features of endometrial carcinomas permit a reclassification that may affect post-surgical adjuvant treatment for women with aggressive tumours, and these features are classified into four categories: POLE ultramutated, microsatellite instability hypermutated, copy- number low, and copy-number high.
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Pain catastrophizing: a critical review

TL;DR: This work focuses on the conceptualization of pain catastrophizing, highlighting its conceptual history and potential problem areas, and discusses a number of theoretical mechanisms of action: appraisal theory, attention bias/information processing, communal coping, CNS pain processing mechanisms, psychophysiological pathways and neural pathways.
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The Role of Psychosocial Processes in the Development and Maintenance of Chronic Pain.

TL;DR: Evidence that psychosocial variables play key roles in conferring risk for the development of pain, in shaping long-term pain-related adjustment, and in modulating pain treatment outcomes is described.
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Catastrophizing and pain in arthritis, fibromyalgia, and other rheumatic diseases

TL;DR: Catastrophizing is a critically important variable in understanding the experience of pain in rheumatologic disorders as well as other chronic pain conditions and may be an important target for both psychosocial and pharmacologic treatment of pain.
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Pain, catastrophizing, and depression in the rheumatic diseases

TL;DR: This Review describes the growing body of literature relating depression and catastrophizing to the experience of pain and pain-related sequelae across a number of rheumatic diseases.