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PubMed

• Hierarchical Clustering Applied to Chronic Pain Drawings Identifies Undiagnosed Fibromyalgia: Implications for Busy Clinical Practice.
  Benedict J Alter, Mark Moses, Rebecca DeSensi, Brian O'Connell, Cheryl Bernstein
  The Journal of Pain. 2024-07-01
• 40 citations
  Acupuncture Treatment Modulates the Connectivity of Key Regions of the Descending Pain Modulation and Reward Systems in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain.
  Siyi Yu, Ana Ortiz, Randy L. Gollub, Georgia Wilson, Jessica Gerber
  Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2020-06-03
• 204 citations
  Discovery and validation of biomarkers to aid the development of safe and effective pain therapeutics: challenges and opportunities.
  Karen D. Davis, Nima Aghaeepour, Andrew H. Ahn, Martin S. Angst, David Borsook
  Nature Reviews. Neurology. 2020-06-15

Journal Articles

• Enhancing Treatment of Osteoarthritis Knee Pain by Boosting Expectancy: A Functional Neuroimaging Study  
  Jessica Gerber, Robert Edwards, Ajay D Wasan, Vitaly Napadow, Ted J Kaptchuk, Jian Kong, Randy L Gollub, ScienceDirect
• Catastrophic Thinking and Increased Risk for Prescription Opioid Misuse in Patients with Chronic Pain  
  Martel MO, Wasan AD, Jamison RN, Edwards RR, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 1/1/2013
• The role of sleep problems in central pain processing in rheumatoid arthritis  
  Lee YC, Lu B, Edwards RR, Wasan AD, Nassikas NJ, Clauw DJ, Solomon DH, Karlson EW, Arthritis and Rheumatism, 1/1/2013
• Relationship of Negative Affect and Outcome of an Opioid Therapy Trial Among Low back Pain Patients  
  Jamison RN, Edwards RR, Liu X, Ross EL, Michna E, Warnick M, Wasan AD, Pain Practitioner, 1/1/2013
• Alterations in Pain Modulation in Women with Persistent Pain after Lumpectomy: Influence of Catastrophizing  
  Edwards RR, Mensing G, Cahalan C, Greenbaum S, Narang S, Belfer I, Schreiber KL, Campbell C, Wasan AD, Jamison RN, J Pain Sympt. Management, 1/1/2013
• Sustained Deep-Tissue Pain Alters Functional Brain Connectivity  
  Kim J, Loggia ML, Edwards RR, Wasan AD, Gollub RL, Napadow V, Pain, 1/1/2013
• Classification and Definition of Misuse, Abuse, and Related Events in Clinical Trials: ACTTION Systematic Review and Recommendations  
  Smith SM, Dart RC, Katz NP, Paillard F, Adams EH, Comer SD, Degroot A, Edwards RR, David Haddox J, Jaffe JH, Jones CM, Kleber HD, Kopecky EA, Markman JD, Montoya ID, O..., Pain, 1/1/2013
• Characteristics of Medical Inpatients with Acute Pain and Suspected Non-Medical Use of Opioids  
  Suzuki J, Meyer FL, Wasan AD, American Journal on Addictions, 1/1/2013
• Can Pragmatic Trials Help Us Better Understand Chronic Pain and Improve Treatment?  
  Rowbotham MC, Gilron I, Glazer C, Rice ASC, Smith BH, Stewart WF, Wasan AD, Pain, 1/1/2013
• An Appraisal of William Thomas Green Morton's Life as a Narcissistic Personality  
  Martin R, Wasan AD, Desai S, Anesthesiology, 1/1/2012
• Use of functional neuroimaging to evaluate psychological and other non-pharmacological treatments for pain  
  Jensen KB, Berna C, Loggia M, Wasan AD, Edwards RR, Gollub RL, Neuroscience Letters, 1/1/2012
• Considerations for Improving Assay Sensitivity in Chronic Pain Clinical Trials: IMMPACT Recommendations  
  Dworkin RH, Turk DC, Peirce-Sandner S, Burke LB, Farrar JT, Gilron I, Jensen MP, Katz NP, Raja SN, Rappaport BA, Rowbotham MC, Backonja MM, Baron R, Bellamy N, Bhagwag..., Pain, 1/1/2012
• Default Mode Network Connectivity Encodes Clinical Pain: An Arterial Spin Labeling Study  
  Loggia ML, Kim J, Gollub RL, Vangel MG, Kirsch I, Kong J, Napadow V*, Wasan AD, Pain, 1/1/2012
• Disentangling linear and nonlinear brain responses to evoked deep tissue pain  
  Loggia ML, Edwards RR, Kim J, Vangel MG, Wasan AD, Gollub RL, Harris RE, Park K, Napadow V, Pain, 1/1/2012
• Evoked Pain Analgesia in Chronic Pelvic Pain Patients using Respiratory-gated Auricular Vagal Afferent Nerve Stimulation  
  Napadow V, Edwards RR, Cahalan C, Mensing G, Greenbaum S, Valovska A, Li A, Kim J, Maeda Y, Park K, Wasan AD, Pain Medicine, 1/1/2012
• Craving of Prescription Opioids in Patients with Chronic Pain: A Longitudinal Outcomes Trial  
  Wasan AD, Ross EL, Michna E, Chen LQ, Holcomb C, Chibnik L, Greenfield S, Weiss R, Jamison RN, J Pain, 1/1/2012
• The catechol-O- methyltransferase (COMT) val158met polymorphism affects brain responses to repeated painful stimuli  
  Loggia ML, Jensen K, Gollub RL, Wasan AD, Edwards RR, Kong J, PloS Medicine, 1/1/2011
• Neural Correlates of Chronic Low Back Pain as Measured by Arterial Spin Labeling  
  Wasan AD, Loggia ML, Chen LQ, Napadow V, Kong J, Gollub RL, Anesthesiology, 1/1/2011
• Hyperalgesia in Chronic Pain Patients at Risk for Opioid Misuse  
  Edwards RR, Wasan AD, Michna E, Greenbaum, S, Ross EL, Jamison, RN, J Pain, 1/1/2011
• Gender Differences in Risk Factors for Aberrant Prescription Opioid Use  
  Jamison RN, Butler SF, Budman SH, Edwards RR, Wasan AD, J of Pain, 1/1/2010
• The Impact of Placebo, Psychopathology, and Expectations on the Response to Acupuncture Needling in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain  
  Wasan AD, Kong J, Pham LD, Kaptchuk TJ, Edwards R, Gollub RL, J Pain, 1/1/2010
• Substance Misuse Treatment for High Risk Chronic Pain Patients on Opioid Therapy: a Randomized Trial  
  Substance Misuse Treatment for High Risk Chronic Pain Patients on Opioid Therapy: a Randomized Trial, Pain, 1/1/2010
• A fMRI Evaluation of Lamotrigine for the Treatment of Trigeminal Neuropathic Pain: Pilot Study  
  Scrivani S, Wallin D, Moulton E, Wasan AD, Lockerman L, Bajwa Z, Upadhyav J, Becerra L, Borsook D, Pain Medicine, 1/1/2010
• Differences in Pain, Psychological Symptoms, and Gender Distribution Among Patients with Left vs. Right-Sided Chronic Spinal Pain  
  Wasan AD, Anderson NK, Giddon DB, Pain Medicine, 1/1/2010
• Spinal Cord Stimulation in a Workers’ Compensation Population: How Difficult it can be to Interpret a Clinical Trial  
  Wasan AD, Pain, 1/1/2010
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Books/Book Chapters

• Pain Procedures in Clinical Practice 
  Chapter: Chapter 26: Lower Extremity: Sciatic Nerve Block 
  Page 261 - 66Karan K, Wasan ADEditors: Lennard TA.Hanley and Belfus Publishers, Philadelphia, PAEdition 3rd ,2011
• Handbook of Anger 
  Chapter: Anger in Pain Sufferers: Attributions of Agents and Appraisals of Wrongdoings 
  Page 449 - 464Fernandez, E and Wasan ADEditors: Potegal M, Stemmler G, and Spielberger C.Springer, New York2010
• Bonica’s Management of Pain 
  Chapter: Chapter 30: Psychiatric Illness, Depression, Anxiety, and Somatoform Pain Disorders 
  Page 393 - 417Wasan AD, Sullivan MD, Clark MREditors: Ballantyne JC, Rathmell JP, and Fishman SM.Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins, Philadelphia, PAEdition 4th ,2010
• Current Therapy in Pain 
  Chapter: Chapter 61: Antidepressants 
  Page 448 - 58Wasan AD, Smith SS, Argoff CEEditors: Smith SS.Elsevier Publishers, Philadelphia, PA2009
• Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry 
  Chapter: Chapter 78: Pain and the Psychiatric Co-morbidities of Pain 
  Page 1067 - 1080Wasan, AD, Alpay, MEditors: Stern TA, Rosenbaum JF, Maurizio F, Biederman J, and Rauch SL.Elsevier Publishers, Philadelphia, PA2008
• Postoperative Pain Management – A Clinician’s Guide to Evidence Based Practice 
  Chapter: Postoperative Pain Management for Patients with Drug Dependence 
  Page 239 - 248Nedeljkovic SS, Wasan ADEditors: Shorten G.Elsevier Publishers, Philadelphia, PA2006
• Essentials of Pain Medicine and Regional Anesthesia 
  Chapter: Psychopharmacology for the Pain Specialist 
  Page 124 - 133Wasan AD, Gallagher RMEditors: Benzon HT, Raja S, Malloy RE, Liu SS, Fishman SM.Elsevier Publishers, Philadelphia, PAEdition 2nd ,2005
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Abstracts/Posters

• The Addictive and Psychoactive Properties of Cannabinoid Medication Studied in a Controlled, Blinded, Crossover Trial for Chronic Noncancer Pain
  Wasan AD, Chen Y, Penetar D, Jamison RN, Narang S, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM), Hawaii, 1/1/2009

Lectures

• MSFM: Endocrinology, Infectious Diseases, and Pain Management 
  2019 ACP Internal Medicine Meeting, Philadelphia - 4/11/2019
• Patient-Reported Measures for Phase 2 and 3 Trials 
  Washington, DC - 1/1/2013
• A Systematic Review of Value-Based Care for Pain Medicine 
  Ft. Lauderdale, FL - 1/1/2013
• Creating a System Within Your Practice to Simultaneously Improve Quality and Perform Clinical Research 
  Ft. Lauderdale, FL - 1/1/2013
• Psychiatric Risk Factors and Trilateral Opioid Agreements 
  Ft. Lauderdale, FL - 1/1/2013
• Psychiatric Aspects of Pain Medicine 
  Boston, MA - 1/1/2013
• Psychiatric Comorbidity is Associated with Diminished Oral Opioid Analgesia in Chronic Low Back Pain: a Longitudinal Cohort Study 
  Milan, Italy - 1/1/2012
• Opioid Prescribing Guidelines 
  Boston, MA - 1/1/2011
• Assessing and Treating Psychiatric Comorbidity in Chronic Pain Patients 
  Madison, WI - 1/1/2011
• Rational Selection of Neuromodulatory Analgesics in Chronic Pain Management: Moving from Symptom Control Toward a Mechanism-based Approach 
  Washington, DC - 1/1/2011
• Getting Research Started 
  Washington, DC - 1/1/2011
• Pharmacology of Smoked Marijuana 
  Washington, DC - 1/1/2011
• The Good, Bad and the Ugly of Opioid Prescribing Guidelines 
  Albany, NY - 1/1/2011
• Guide to Aberrant Behaviors Associated with Analgesic Use 
  Washington, DC - 1/1/2011
• FMRI Update for Pain 
  Boston, MA - 1/1/2011
• How can the Development of Improved Analgesic Treatments be Expedited? 
  Washington, DC - 1/1/2011
• Clinical Research in the Pain Management Center 
  1/1/2011
• Psychopathology predicts opioid response 
  1/1/2011
• Standardized Examination for Post Herpetic Neuralgia 
  Albany, NY - 1/1/2011
• Study of Treatment for Patients at Risk for Prescription Opioid Abuse 
  Boston, MA - 1/1/2011
• Craving for Prescription Opioids 
  1/1/2010
• Dealing with Difficult Pain Patients 
  San Antonio, TX - 1/1/2010
• Creating a National Pain Treatment Outcomes Registry Through Partnership with Private Industry 
  Madison, WI - 1/1/2010
• Monitoring Opioid Compliance 
  Toronto, Canada - 1/1/2009
• How to be a helpful consultant without having to write for opioids indefinitely: the trilateral agreemen 
  Honolulu, HI - 1/1/2009
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Other

• Policy Statement on Pain Management in Patients with a History of Addiction 
  Wasan AD, New England Pain Association Policy Manual
  1/1/2002