Robert Edwards

Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, United States of America

Research Interests: I am currently a junior faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins. The focus of my research in recent years has been on using experimental pain paradigms (i.e., administration of standardized noxious stimuli in a controlled environment) to elucidate individual differences in pain sensitivity and pain modulation. In particular, some of our work has suggested sex differences, ethnic differences, and age-related changes in how individuals perceive and respond to pain. More recently, I have focused on the dynamic biopsychosocial experience of pain, in particular the effects of cognitions and emotions on physiological responses to painful stimuli. Current studies in our lab include an investigation of how pain affects the human immune system, and how psychosocial processes such as negative emotions may magnify the physiological impact of pain.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Anesthesiology & Pain Management > Pain Management: Chronic Clinical (since 26 July 2007)

Links

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All recent recommendations

• 3.2
  Oral opioid use alters DNIC but not cold pain perception in patients with chronic pain - New perspective of opioid-induced hyperalgesia.
  Recommended by Robert Edwards with Claudia Campbell, Martin Angst
  
• 3.0
  The role of a flash of light for attenuation of venous cannulation pain: a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled study.
  Recommended by Robert Edwards with Claudia M Campbell
  
• 6.0
  Investigation into the neural correlates of emotional augmentation of clinical pain.
  Recommended by Robert Edwards with Claudia Campbell
  
• 6.6
  Prediction of chronic post-operative pain: Pre-operative DNIC testing identifies patients at risk.
  Recommended by Ruth Landau, Roger Fillingim, Robert Edwards with Claudia Campbell , Audun Stubhaug
  
• 3.0
  Clinical and experimental pain perception is attenuated in patients with painless myocardial infarction.
  Recommended by Robert Edwards