Abstract
Pain Assessment in Neurodegenerative Diseases.
Highlights
Some original articles have been included in this special issue to support this concept
This special issue was hosted by a panel of pain specialists around Europe and Israel, who shared common scientific interests on different aspects of pain, being involved in researches on pain assessment and diagnosis in neurodegenerative diseases and especially dementia
Since the first reports of altered pain responses in patients with cognitive impairment were published, the question has arisen, whether there might be certain cognitive domains that might best explain these alterations in pain responses
Summary
Some original articles have been included in this special issue to support this concept. The issue contains a comprehensive review on pain aspects in common and rare neurodegenerative disorders where pain has recently emerged as a frequent symptom, main treatments are exclusively focusing on cognitive or motor impairment and leave pain out of the guidelines. In Alzheimer disease, pain symptoms are not clearly expressed, so the few clinical scales used and in course of validation have the special aim to recognize features of sufferance.
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