Chronic Pain: From Molecular Mechanisms to Targeted Interventions
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Physiology and Pathology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 165
Special Issue Editors
Interests: chronic pain; depression; TRPV1; signaling pathway; neuroscience; brain sciences
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Interests: brain cognitive engineering; acupuncture; neuroimaging; neuromodulation; pain
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to contribute to this Special Issue of Life, entitled ‘Chronic Pain: From Molecular Mechanisms to Targeted Interventions’.
Chronic pain, which defined as pain signals lasting more than three months in clinical observation, differs from acute pain, which serves as a warning sign. Due to its complex mechanisms and difficulty in treatment, it has become a major global health challenge. Currently, approximately one to two billion people worldwide suffer from it, resulting in a heavy socioeconomic burden and high healthcare costs. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) emphasizes that, given the difficulties in clinically treating chronic pain, developing new interventions to improve patients' physical and mental health and quality of life is an urgent priority.
Currently, there is still a lack of effective treatments for chronic pain. Methods for pain management include analgesics, antiepileptic drugs, neurostimulation, traditional medicine, physical therapy, artificial intelligence, neuroimaging, and placebos. This Special Issue invites submissions from researchers and physicians in any field, including original research/review articles, on various treatment methods such as medication, neurostimulation, neuroimaging, neurobiology, clinical trials, or artificial intelligence. This Special Issue aims to promote the discovery of the mechanisms, diagnosis, treatment, and management of chronic pain.
Prof. Dr. Yiwen Lin
Prof. Dr. Younbyoung Chae
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- chronic pain
- analgesics
- neurostimulation
- traditional medicine
- physical therapy
- neuroimaging
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