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Shad Benjamin Smith

Associate Professor in Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology

Scholarly Works - Book sections


Clinical pain phenotyping for omics studies

Book section · January 1, 2020 Pain is by definition a subjective experience that affects individuals in dramatically different ways. Individual variation across many domains of the pain experience, such as sensitivity to noxious stimuli and propensity to develop chronic pain, has been ... Full text Cite

Genetic risk factors for orofacial pain: Insights from human experimental studies

Book section · June 1, 2015 This chapter takes, as a starting point, the clinically well-known notion that symptoms of chronic orofacial pain are highly variable from patient to patient and that using these symptoms to guide pain treatment is not enough to manage patients successfull ... Cite

Translating Genetic Knowledge into Clinical Practice for Musculoskeletal Pain Conditions

Book section · November 25, 2013 This chapter focuses on the genetic factors that contribute to chronic low back pain (LBP), chronic widespread pain (CWP), fibromyalgia (FM), and painful temporomandibular joint disorders (TMD), which collectively represent a set of pain conditions that ar ... Full text Cite