Chronic Pain Is a Brain Network Disorder
This Viewpoint calls for a reconsideration of chronic pain as a symptom of nervous system dysfunction and recommends several neuromodulation therapies for refractory clinical pain.
Authors
- Julian C. Motzkin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2249-4753)
- Prasad Shirvalkar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4977-7975)
- Kalpna Gupta
- Bin He
Institutions
- University of Minnesota (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- Neurological Surgery (US)
- Carnegie Mellon University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA Neurology
- Published
- 2025-12-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2025.5065
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Pain Management and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.19