Pain: New Insights into Mechanisms, Diagnosis, Therapy, and Management
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Physiology and Pathology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 2228
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pain; depression; TRPV1; signaling pathway; brain sciences
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We have recently set up a Special Issue to attract articles on the topic of “Pain: New Insights into Mechanisms, Diagnosis, Therapy, and Management”.
Pain is defined as an uncomfortable feeling that activates nociceptive signals in both the peripheral and central nervous systems under clinical observation. The NIH has declared that chronic pain contributes the most to societal and economic costs and is implicated global healthcare expenditure.
Deep brain stimulation, artificial intelligence, nerve stimulation and neuroimaging, are among the new insights and approaches suggested for pain management. Furthermore, the use of cohorts, big data, and machine learning is becoming more prevalent in non-pharmacological treatment. We invite researchers and medical practitioners to submit original research or review articles focused on a range of methods that represent ongoing efforts to gain new insights into diagnosis mechanisms, therapy and management of pain for this upcoming Special Issue in the journal Life.
Prof. Dr. Yiwen Lin
Dr. I-Han Hsiao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pain
- mechanisms
- signaling pathways
- diagnosis
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