Computational modeling of peripheral pain: a commentary

This commentary is intended to find possible explanations for the low impact of computational modeling on pain research. We discuss the main strategies that have been used in building computational models for the study of pain. The analysis suggests that traditional models lack biological plausibility at some levels, they do not provide clinically relevant results, and they cannot capture the stochastic character of neural dynamics. On this basis, we provide some suggestions that may be useful in building computational models of pain with a wider range of applications.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  BioMedical Engineering OnLine

• Publication date

  2015-06-11

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1186/s12938-015-0049-xPMID 26062616PMCID 4464699
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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