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Overview

Daniel J. Clauw is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health, Pharmacology, Physiology, Rheumatology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work concentrates on specific topics within chronic pain and related conditions. These main topics include:

  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies
  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Myofascial Pain Diagnosis and Treatment

Several frequent coauthors have collaborated with Daniel J. Clauw, including:

  • Steven E. Harte
  • David A. Williams
  • Andrew Schrepf
  • Richard E. Harris
  • Chelsea Kaplan

The scientist has published extensively in various journals, with frequent publication venues being:

  • Pain
  • Journal of Pain
  • Pain Medicine
  • Arthritis & Rheumatology
  • Arthritis Care & Research

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Daniel J. Clauw are:

  • "Nociplastic pain: towards an understanding of prevalent pain conditions" (2021, The Lancet)
  • "Chronic nociplastic pain affecting the musculoskeletal system: clinical criteria and grading system" (2021, Pain)
  • "Central sensitisation in chronic pain conditions: latest discoveries and their potential for precision medicine" (2021, The Lancet Rheumatology)
  • "Considering the potential for an increase in chronic pain after the COVID-19 pandemic" (2020, Pain)
  • "Lorecivivint, a Novel Intraarticular CDC-like Kinase 2 and Dual-Specificity Tyrosine Phosphorylation-Regulated Kinase 1A Inhibitor and Wnt Pathway Modulator for the Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis: A Phase II Randomized Trial" (2020, Arthritis & Rheumatology)

Best Publications

  • The American College of Rheumatology preliminary diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia and measurement of symptom severity.

    Frederick Wolfe;Daniel J. Clauw;Mary Ann Fitzcharles;Don L. Goldenberg

  • Fibromyalgia: A clinical review

    Daniel J. Clauw

  • 2016 Revisions to the 2010/2011 fibromyalgia diagnostic criteria

    Frederick Wolfe;Daniel J. Clauw;Mary Ann Fitzcharles;Don L. Goldenberg;Don L. Goldenberg

  • Fibromyalgia criteria and severity scales for clinical and epidemiological studies: a modification of the ACR Preliminary Diagnostic Criteria for Fibromyalgia

    Frederick Wolfe;Daniel J. Clauw;Mary Ann Fitzcharles;Don L. Goldenberg

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence of augmented pain processing in fibromyalgia

    Richard H. Gracely;Richard H. Gracely;Frank Petzke;Julie M. Wolf;Daniel J. Clauw;Daniel J. Clauw

  • Pain catastrophizing and neural responses to pain among persons with fibromyalgia

    R. H. Gracely;M. E. Geisser;T. Giesecke;M. A.B. Grant

  • Evidence of Augmented Central Pain Processing in Idiopathic Chronic Low Back Pain

    Thorsten Giesecke;Richard H. Gracely;Masilo A. B. Grant;Alf Nachemson;Alf Nachemson

  • Intrinsic Brain Connectivity in Fibromyalgia is Associated with Chronic Pain Intensity

    Vitaly J. Napadow;Lauren LaCount;Kyungmo Park;Sawsan As-Sanie

  • Nociplastic pain: towards an understanding of prevalent pain conditions

    Mary Ann Fitzcharles;Steven P. Cohen;Steven P. Cohen;Daniel J. Clauw;Geoffrey Littlejohn

  • Decreased Central μ-Opioid Receptor Availability in Fibromyalgia

    Richard E. Harris;Daniel J. Clauw;David J. Scott;Samuel A. McLean

  • Neurobiology of fibromyalgia and chronic widespread pain.

    Kathleen A. Sluka;Daniel J. Clauw

  • Chronic pain and fatigue syndromes: Overlapping clinical and neuroendocrine features and potential pathogenic mechanisms

    Daniel J. Clauw;George P. Chrousos

  • Subgrouping of fibromyalgia patients on the basis of pressure-pain thresholds and psychological factors.

    Thorsten Giesecke;David A. Williams;Richard E. Harris;Thomas R. Cupps

  • Psychiatric disorders in patients with fibromyalgia: A multicenter investigation.

    Steven A. Epstein;Gary G. Kay;Daniel J. Clauw;Robert K. Heaton

  • Risedronate decreases biochemical markers of cartilage degradation but does not decrease symptoms or slow radiographic progression in patients with medial compartment osteoarthritis of the knee: results of the two-year multinational knee osteoarthritis structural arthritis study.

    Clifton O. Bingham;J. Chris Buckland-Wright;Patrick Garnero;Stanley B. Cohen

  • Chronic widespread pain and fibromyalgia: what we know, and what we need to know

    Daniel J. Clauw;Leslie J. Crofford

  • The relationship between depression, clinical pain, and experimental pain in a chronic pain cohort

    Thorsten Giesecke;Richard H. Gracely;David A. Williams;Michael E. Geisser

  • Trends and predictors of opioid use after total knee and total hip arthroplasty.

    Jenna Goesling;Stephanie E. Moser;Bilal Zaidi;Afton L. Hassett

  • Persistent pain and depression: a biopsychosocial perspective

    Lisa C Campbell;Daniel J Clauw;Daniel J Clauw;Francis J Keefe;Francis J Keefe

  • Fibromyalgia: an overview.

    Daniel J. Clauw

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard E. Harris
Richard E. Harris University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David A. Williams
David A. Williams Boston Children's Hospital
Richard H. Gracely
Richard H. Gracely University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke
Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke Ruhr University Bochum
Philip J. Mease
Philip J. Mease University of Washington
Emeran A. Mayer
Emeran A. Mayer University of California, Los Angeles
Vitaly Napadow
Vitaly Napadow Harvard University
Sean Mackey
Sean Mackey Stanford University
Leslie J. Crofford
Leslie J. Crofford Vanderbilt University Medical Center
A. Vania Apkarian
A. Vania Apkarian Northwestern University

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