ReviewCurrent pain and headache reports2011
Pain perception during menstrual cycle.
Review in Current pain and headache reports, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Evoked pain analgesia in chronic pelvic pain patients using respiratory-gated auricular vagal afferent nerve stimulation.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2012Trial
- Muscle-Nerve Signaling and Neurogenic Inflammation in Temporomandibular Disorders: Potential Contributions of Occlusal Interference and Other Peripheral Triggers.Dentistry journal · 2026Review
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- [Gender-specific results of the Dresden children and adolescents headache program DreKiP].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2024Article
- Musculoskeletal Morphology and Joint Flexibility-Associated Functional Characteristics across Three Time Points during the Menstrual Cycle in Female Contemporary Dancers.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2024Article
- Guilt is effectively induced by a written auto-biographical essay but not reduced by experimental pain.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Combining Electrodermal Activity With the Peak-Pain Time to Quantify Three Temporal Regions of Pain Experience.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Has the Phase of the Menstrual Cycle Been Considered in Studies Investigating Pressure Pain Sensitivity in Migraine and Tension-Type Headache: A Scoping Review.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Gender Differences in Subjective Pain Perception during and after Tattooing.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Suicide Risk and the Menstrual Cycle: a Review of Candidate RDoC Mechanisms.Current psychiatry reports · 2018Review
- Anticipation of thermal pain in diverticular disease.Neurogastroenterology and motility · 2016Article
- Childhood adversities and laboratory pain perception.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2015Article
- Evaluation of sensitivity, motor and pain thresholds across the menstrual cycle through medium-frequency transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2013Observational
- Clinical features of headache patients with fibromyalgia comorbidity.The journal of headache and pain · 2011Article
- [The influence of the menstrual cycle on acute and persistent pain after laparoscopic cholecystectomy].Brazilian journal of anesthesiology (Elsevier)Article
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Abstract
Sexual hormones influence complex brain function and pain perception. Many psychophysical studies attempted to establish pain perception changes across menstrual cycle in animal models and healthy women or those with chronic pain. General results are quite uncertain in regard to consistent menstrual-related fluctuations of pain perception. The few studies applying neurophysiological procedures to test pain-related changes during menstrual cycle suggested a fluctuation of central modulation of pain across phases, with a prevalence of excitatory versus inhibitory control in the premenstrual period, which may explain the cyclic worsening of many syndromes, such as migraine. Whatever is the relevance of menstrual cycle on individual painful symptoms, it should be accepted as one of the numerous factors influencing mechanisms of neuromodulation.
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