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The article needs more on:

  • central sensitization
  • allodynia.
  • pain and consciousness.
  • pain's neurological kinship with social pain.
  • objective measurement of pain or the lack thereof
  • drug-seeking behaviour
  • feigned pain in malingering
  • Pain#Assessment_in_nonverbal_patients needs the attention of an expert, or someone willing to read up on the protocols.
  • the relationship between pain and inflammation.
  • central pain.
  • the chemistry of pain.
  • relationship to pleasure.
  • suicide and self-medication.
  • effect of sleep deprivation on pain
  • psychology of pain

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