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Overview

Kenneth D. Craig is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a specialization in pediatric pain management and related interdisciplinary fields.

Their recent publications span various aspects of pain science, particularly pediatric and social dimensions of pain. Notable papers include:

  • What is pain: Are cognitive and social features core components?, 2021, Paediatric and Neonatal Pain
  • A child in pain: A psychologist's perspective on changing priorities in scientific understanding and clinical care, 2020, Paediatric and Neonatal Pain
  • Towards health equity for people experiencing chronic pain and social marginalization, 2021, International Journal for Equity in Health
  • Social Determinants and Consequences of Pain: Toward Multilevel, Intersectional, and Life Course Perspectives, 2024, Journal of Pain
  • Automated Pain Assessment in Children Using Electrodermal Activity and Video Data Fusion via Machine Learning, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Their collaboration network includes frequent coauthors such as:

  • Bruce Wallace
  • Colleen Varcoe
  • Cindy Holmes
  • Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha
  • Gregg Moor

Kenneth D. Craig's work appears consistently in several publication venues. The most frequent include:

  • Paediatric and Neonatal Pain
  • Journal of Pain
  • Frontiers in Pain Research
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
  • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Their subfields of study reflect a multidisciplinary approach, covering:

  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Pharmacology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • General Health Professions

The main topics addressed in their research center on various aspects of pain management and related areas, including:

  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research

Best Publications

  • Coding of facial expressions of pain in the laboratory mouse

    Dale J Langford;Andrea L Bailey;Mona Lisa Chanda;Sarah E Clarke

  • Pain expression in neonates: facial action and cry☆

    Ruth V.E. Grunau;Kenneth D. Craig

  • Updating the definition of pain.

    Amanda C de C Williams;Kenneth D Craig

  • Facing others in pain: the effects of empathy.

    Liesbet Goubert;K. D. Craig;Tine Vervoort;S. Morley

  • New perspectives on the definition of pain.

    K. J. S. Anand;Kenneth D. Craig

  • An interdisciplinary expert consensus statement on assessment of pain in older persons

    Thomas Hadjistavropoulos;Keela Herr;Dennis C. Turk;Perry G. Fine

  • Pain in the preterm neonate: behavioural and physiological indices.

    Kenneth D. Craig;Michael F. Whitfield;Ruth V.E. Grunau;Julie Linton

  • A biopsychosocial formulation of pain communication

    Thomas Hadjistavropoulos;Kenneth D. Craig;Steve Duck;Annmarie Cano

  • The social communication model of pain.

    Kenneth D. Craig

  • A theoretical framework for understanding self-report and observational measures of pain: a communications model

    T Hadjistavropoulos;K.D Craig

  • The Impact of Maternal Behavior on Children's Pain Experiences: An Experimental Analysis

    Christine T. Chambers;Kenneth D. Craig;Susan M. Bennett

  • Neonatal facial and cry responses to invasive and non-invasive procedures

    Ruth V.E. Grunau;C.Celeste Johnston;Kenneth D. Craig

  • A comparison of faces scales for the measurement of pediatric pain: children's and parents' ratings.

    Christine T Chambers;Kelly Giesbrecht;Kenneth D Craig;Susan M Bennett

  • Pain assessment in elderly adults with dementia

    Thomas Hadjistavropoulos;Keela A. Herr;Kenneth M. Prkachin;Kenneth D. Craig

  • Agreement Between Child and Parent Reports of Pain

    Christine Chambers;Graham Reid;Kenneth Craig;Patrick McGrath

  • Developmental changes in pain expression in premature, full-term, two- and four-month-old infants.

    C.Celeste Johnston;C.Celeste Johnston;Bonnie Stevens;Bonnie Stevens;Kenneth D. Craig;Ruth V.E. Grunau

  • Understanding stigma and chronic pain: a-state-of-the-art review.

    Lies De Ruddere;Kenneth D. Craig

  • Musical performance anxiety: The three-systems model and self-efficacy theory

    Michelle G. Craske;Kenneth D. Craig

  • Recognition and discrimination of prototypical dynamic expressions of pain and emotions.

    Daniela Simon;Kenneth D. Craig;Frederic Gosselin;Pascal Belin

  • The facial expression of pain.

    Kenneth D. Craig;Kenneth M. Prkachin;Ruth Eckstein Grunau

  • Social communication model of pain.

    Kenneth D. Craig

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine T. Chambers
Christine T. Chambers Dalhousie University
Thomas Hadjistavropoulos
Thomas Hadjistavropoulos University of Regina
Rebecca Pillai Riddell
Rebecca Pillai Riddell York University
Kenneth M. Prkachin
Kenneth M. Prkachin University of Northern British Columbia
Liesbet Goubert
Liesbet Goubert Ghent University
Heather D. Hadjistavropoulos
Heather D. Hadjistavropoulos University of Regina
Geert Crombez
Geert Crombez Ghent University
Tine Vervoort
Tine Vervoort Ghent University
Carl L. von Baeyer
Carl L. von Baeyer University of Saskatchewan
Christopher J. Patrick
Christopher J. Patrick Florida State University

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