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Current Research
Chronic neuropathic pain severely affects the quality of
life of the individual patient and represents a major health issue for
society with considerable economic consequences, e.g.
increased medical expenses and public pension expenditure.
Chronic pain is difficult to treat and can
seldom be cured, but in many cases it can be reduced, and a
means to improve the treatement is to increase our knowledge of the underlying
mechanisms.
The Danish Pain Research Center was founded
with the primary aim to study chronic pain, in particular pain
caused by damage to the central nervous system, defined by
IASP as: Pain arising as a direct consequence of a lesion
or disease affecting the somatosensory system (Treede et
al., Neurology 2008).
The current focus areas are:
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Deafferentation pain including postamputation pain,
plexus avulsions and nerve injuries
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Pain following traumatic musculoskeletal
conditions, including whiplash injury
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Pain following CNS lesions (stroke and
spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis)
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The sympathetic nervous system and pain
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Pain and depression
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Study of brain plasticity using
multi-modal imaging
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