Pain Memory: Assessment and Clinical Implications
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensory and Motor Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 786
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pain assessment; pain memory; pain management
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Dear Colleagues,
The memory of pain is defined as the memory trace resulting from the collection and processing of painful information. The current literature regarding the memory of pain encompasses both the recollection of pain intensity and the memory of the unpleasant sensation associated with pain. The memory of pain holds significant importance as it influences subsequent painful experiences. It is also known that the chronicity of pain is related to the existence of attentional avoidance of painful information, the tendency to overestimate past pain and high levels of depression. The importance of the memory of pain in chronic pain is so significant, that some authors define this type of pain as the persistence of painful recollection and/or the inability to eliminate the memory of pain established by an initial injury.
To this end, we welcome any methodological design, including systematic reviews/meta-analysis, clinical trials, observational studies, pilot studies, and even case series and case reports.
Dr. Ferran Cuenca-Martínez
Dr. Núria Sempere-Rubio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pain memory
- psychosocial
- pain chronification
- pain medicine
- pain assessment
- pain neuroscience
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