Introducing the Biennial review of pain.

Table of Contents

• Central Sensitization: Implications for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pain
  CJ Woolf (USA)
• From transduction to pain sensation: Defining genes, cells and circuits
  M Liu, U Oh, JN Wood (UK, South Korea)
• From descending pain modulation to obesity via the medullary raphe
  P Mason (USA)
• Orofacial pain
  KM Hargreaves (USA)
• Pathophysiology of postoperative pain
  TJ Brennan (USA)
• Acupuncture analgesia: Areas of consensus and controversy
  J-S Han (China)
• Pain and the brain: Specificity and plasticity of the brain in clinical chronic pain
  AV Apkarian, JA Hashmi, MN Baliki (USA)
• Pain in neonates is different
  CC Johnston, AM Fernandes, M Campbell-Yeo (Canada, Portugal)
• Diagnosis and assessment of neuropathic pain: The saga of clinical tools
  D Bouhassira, N Attal (France)
• Chronic treatment-related pain in cancer survivors
  JA Paice (USA)
• Moving differently in pain:A new theory to explain the adaptation to pain
  PW Hodges, K Tucker (Australia)
• Efficacy and effectiveness of cogntive behavior therapy for chronic pain:Progress and some challenges
  S Morley (UK)
• Evidence-based clinical trial design for chronic pain pharmacotherapy: A blueprint for ACTION
  RH Dworkin, DC Turk, NP Katz, MC Rowbotham, S Peirce-Sandner, I Cerny, CS Clingman, BC Eloff, JT Farrar, C Kamp, MP McDermott, BA Rappaport, WR Sanhai (USA)