ArticleSeminars in arthritis and rheumatism2021
A multidisciplinary assessment of pain in juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
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- A systematic review of the psychosocial factors associated with pain in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis.Pediatric rheumatology online journal · 2023Pooled it
- Hippocampal neuroinflammation and altered peripheral neurobiological protein profile in experimental arthritis and systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis.EBioMedicine · 2026Article
- The emergence of sex differences in primary pain during adolescence: a conceptual developmentally-oriented biopsychosocial model and opportunities for further investigation.BMC pediatrics · 2025Review
- Effects of Multimodal Rheumatologic Complex Treatment in Childhood and Adolescence.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Characterization of pain and somatization and its relationship with psychopathology in early onset psychosis.Journal of psychiatric research · 2024Article
- The benefits of physical therapy in juvenile idiopathic arthritis.Rheumatology international · 2023Review
- Proteomics based markers of clinical pain severity in juvenile idiopathic arthritis.Pediatric rheumatology online journal · 2022Article
- The Brain Structural-Functional Vulnerability in Drug-Naive Children With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Insights From the Hippocampus.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Characterizing Neurocognitive Impairment in Juvenile Fibromyalgia Syndrome: Subjective and Objective Measures of Dyscognition.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionPain is prevalent in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Unknowns regarding the biological drivers of pain complicate therapeutic targeting. We employed neuroimaging to define pain-related neurobiological features altered in JIA.
methods16 male and female JIA patients (12.7 ± 2.8 years of age) on active treatment were enrolled, together with age- and sex-matched controls. Patients were assessed using physical examination, clinical questionnaires, musculoskeletal MRI, and structural neuroimaging. In addition, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data were collected during the resting-state, hand-motor task performance, and cold stimulation of the hand and knee.
resultsPatients with and without pain and with and without inflammation (joint and systemic) were evaluated. Pain severity was associated with more physical stress and poorer cognitive function. Corrected for multiple comparisons, morphological analysis revealed decreased cortical thickness within the insula cortex and a negative correlation between caudate nucleus volume and pain severity. Functional neuroimaging findings suggested alteration within neurocircuitry structures regulating emotional pain processing (anterior insula) in addition to the default-mode and sensorimotor networks.
conclusionsPatients with JIA may exhibit changes in neurobiological circuits related to pain. These preliminary findings suggest mechanisms by which pain could potentially become dissociated from detectable joint pathology and persist independently of inflammation or treatment status.
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