Latest AI and machine learning research in pain management for healthcare professionals.
Placebo analgesia in chronic pain is a widely studied clinical phenomenon, where expectations about the effectiveness of a treatment can result in substantial pain relief when using an inert treatment agent. While placebos offer an opportunity for non-pharmacological treatment in chronic pain, not everyone demonstrates an analgesic response. Prior research has identified biopsychosocial factors th...
Opioid decriminalization has taken on renewed urgency in regions grappling with high mortality and health-care costs. Traditional assessments often focus on legal or epidemiological data, leaving gaps in understanding how the public actually perceives and reacts to such policies. This paper introduces an AI-driven approach that applies Mistral, a Large Language Model (LLM), to a corpus of over 22,...
Large language models (LLMs) offer potential benefits in clinical care. However, concerns remain regarding socio-demographic biases embedded in their ...
Acute Hepatic Porphyria (AHP) is a rare genetic disease characterized by unpredictable life-threatening attacks. There is no reliable biochemical scre...
Machine learning-generated segmentations of the trigeminal nerve and nearby blood vessels have the potential to quantify the magnitude of neurovascula...
Patients with post-COVID-19-related symptoms require active and timely support in self-management. Just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAI) seem pr...
Low back pain is the world’s leading cause of disability and pathology of the lumbar intervertebral discs is frequently considered a driver of pain. T...
Low back pain (LBP) is the most common musculoskeletal symptom worldwide and intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration is an important contributing facto...
Primary age-related tauopathy (PART) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) share hippocampal phospho-tau (p-tau) pathology but differ in ß-amyloid burden and d...
Chest pain is among the most common chief complaints in Emergency Departments (EDs), and differentiating acute coronary syndrome from low-risk chest p...
Dengue, chikungunya, and Zika are diseases of major human concern. Differential diagnosis is complicated in children and adolescents by their overlapp...
Hospitals are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) tools in clinical care. However, their overall impact on the health of older adults r...
Spinal cord injury (SCI) can severely impair motor and autonomic function, with long-term consequences for quality of life. Epidural stimulation has e...
Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by a point mutation producing abnormal hemoglobin S, leading to deformed red b...
Chronic pain impacts more than one in five adults in the United States (US) and the costs associated with the condition amount to hundreds of billions...
Large Language Models (LLMs) offer promising applications in healthcare, including drafting referral letters. However, access to LLMs specifically des...
Accurate intraoperative detection of nociceptive events is essential for optimizing analgesic administration and improving postoperative outcomes. Whi...
Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a chronic condition in which an individual engages in the persistent use of opioids that causes significant distress and ...
Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a neurodegenerative 4R tauopathy clinically presenting with atypical parkinsonism or cognitive behavioral chan...
Emergency department (ED) encounters represent valuable opportunities to initiate evidence-based treatments for patients with opioid misuse, but few r...