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Overview

Frank Birklein is affiliated with Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany. Their research predominantly focuses on medical sciences, with significant contributions across various subfields including physiology, anesthesiology and pain medicine, neurology, pharmacology, and cell biology.

The primary topics covered in Birklein's work include:

  • Pain Management and Treatment
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Myofascial pain diagnosis and treatment
  • Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
  • Hereditary Neurological Disorders
  • Amyloidosis: Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes

Birklein's publication record includes notable papers such as:

  • Ambient Air Pollution Increases the Risk of Cerebrovascular and Neuropsychiatric Disorders through Induction of Inflammation and Oxidative Stress (2020) in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • The Valencia consensus-based adaptation of the IASP complex regional pain syndrome diagnostic criteria (2021) in Pain
  • Pain Phenotypes in Rare Musculoskeletal and Neuromuscular Diseases (2021) in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Systemic inflammatory biomarkers in painful diabetic neuropathy (2021) in Journal of Diabetes and its Complications
  • Chance or challenge, spoilt for choice? New recommendations on diagnostic and therapeutic considerations in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis with polyneuropathy: the German/Austrian position and review of the literature (2020) in Journal of Neurology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Birklein include:

  • Fabiola Escolano-Lozano
  • Claudia Sommer
  • Violeta Dimova
  • Christian Geber
  • Heike L. Rittner

Birklein's research has been published extensively in several specialized venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • Pain
  • European Journal of Pain
  • Journal of Pain
  • European Journal of Neurology
  • PAIN Reports

Best Publications

  • Quantitative sensory testing in the German Research Network on Neuropathic Pain (DFNS): Standardized protocol and reference values

    R. Rolke;R. Baron;C. Maier;T.R. Tölle

  • Quantitative sensory testing: a comprehensive protocol for clinical trials

    R. Rolke;W. Magerl;K. Andrews Campbell;C. Schalber

  • Validation of proposed diagnostic criteria (the "budapest Criteria") for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

    Robert N Harden;Stephen Bruehl;Roberto S.G.M. Perez;Roberto S.G.M. Perez;Frank Birklein

  • Quantitative sensory testing in the German Research Network on Neuropathic Pain (DFNS): Somatosensory abnormalities in 1236 patients with different neuropathic pain syndromes

    C. Maier;R. Baron;T. R. Tölle;A. Binder

  • Clinical features and pathophysiology of complex regional pain syndrome

    Johan Marinus;G Lorimer Moseley;G Lorimer Moseley;Frank Birklein;Ralf Baron

  • Patterns of cortical reorganization in complex regional pain syndrome

    Christian Maihöfner;Hermann O. Handwerker;Bernhard Neundörfer;Frank Birklein

  • Cortical reorganization during recovery from complex regional pain syndrome

    Christian Maihöfner;Hermann O. Handwerker;Bernhard Neundörfer;Frank Birklein

  • Neurological findings in complex regional pain syndromes--analysis of 145 cases.

    F Birklein;B Riedl;N Sieweke;M Weber

  • Ambient Air Pollution Increases the Risk of Cerebrovascular and Neuropsychiatric Disorders through Induction of Inflammation and Oxidative Stress.

    Omar Hahad;Jos Lelieveld;Jos Lelieveld;Frank Birklein;Klaus Lieb;Klaus Lieb

  • The motor system shows adaptive changes in complex regional pain syndrome

    Christian Maihöfner;Ralf Baron;Roberto DeCol;Andreas Binder

  • Complex regional pain syndrome

    Frank Birklein

  • Differential expression patterns of cytokines in complex regional pain syndrome

    Nurcan Üçeyler;Tatiana Eberle;Roman Rolke;Frank Birklein

  • Test-retest and interobserver reliability of quantitative sensory testing according to the protocol of the German Research Network on Neuropathic Pain (DFNS): a multi-centre study.

    Christian Geber;Thomas Klein;Shahnaz Azad;Frank Birklein

  • The important role of neuropeptides in complex regional pain syndrome.

    F. Birklein;M. Schmelz;S. Schifter;M. Weber

  • Neuropeptides, neurogenic inflammation and complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS).

    Frank Birklein;Martin Schmelz

  • Facilitated neurogenic inflammation in complex regional pain syndrome.

    M Weber;F Birklein;B Neundörfer;M Schmelz

  • The Sympathetic Nervous System and Pain

    Tanja Schlereth;Frank Birklein

  • Brain processing during mechanical hyperalgesia in complex regional pain syndrome: a functional MRI study

    Christian Maihöfner;Clemens Forster;Frank Birklein;Bernhard Neundörfer

  • Thinking about movement hurts: The effect of motor imagery on pain and swelling in people with chronic arm pain

    G. Lorimer Moseley;Nadia Zalucki;Frank Birklein;Johan Marinus

  • Quantitative sensory testing in the German Research Network on Neuropathic Pain (DFNS): reference data for the trunk and application in patients with chronic postherpetic neuralgia.

    Doreen B. Pfau;Elena K. Krumova;Rolf-Detlef Treede;Ralf Baron

  • Functional imaging of allodynia in complex regional pain syndrome

    Christian Maihöfner;Hermann O. Handwerker;Frank Birklein

Frequent Co-Authors

Marianne Dieterich
Marianne Dieterich Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Claudia Sommer
Claudia Sommer University of Würzburg
Christian Maihöfner
Christian Maihöfner University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Rolf-Detlef Treede
Rolf-Detlef Treede Heidelberg University
Roman Rolke
Roman Rolke RWTH Aachen University
Bernhard Neundörfer
Bernhard Neundörfer University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Walter Magerl
Walter Magerl Heidelberg University
Christoph Maier
Christoph Maier Ruhr University Bochum
Notger G. Müller
Notger G. Müller German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Matthias Gamer
Matthias Gamer University of Würzburg

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