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. 2021 Apr 1;162(4):999-1006.
doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002111.

Pain in the neurodegenerating brain: insights into pharmacotherapy for Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease

Timothy Lawn  1 , Yahyah Aman  2 , Katarina Rukavina  3   4 , George Sideris-Lampretsas  5 , Matthew Howard  1 , Clive Ballard  6 , Kallol Ray Chaudhuri  3   4 , Marzia Malcangio  5
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Pain in the neurodegenerating brain: insights into pharmacotherapy for Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease

Timothy Lawn et al. Pain. .
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Conflict of interest statement

C. Ballard reports grants and personal fees from Acadia pharmaceutical company, grants and personal fees from Lundbeck, personal fees from Roche, personal fees from Otsuka, personal fees from Biogen, personal fees from Eli Lilly, personal fees from Novo Nordisk, personal fees from AARP, grants and personal fees from Synexus, and personal fees from Exciva, all outside the submitted work. The remaining authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Conceptual framework relating the respective neurodegenerative pathophysiology within AD and PD to pain processing and treatment. AD, Alzheimer disease; PD, Parkinson disease.
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Figure 2.
Importance of mechanistic research for evidence-based pain medicine.
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