American Pain Society's 27th Annual Scientific Meeting (May 8 – 10, 2008): Paper Presentations: Treatment Approaches

Efficacy and age-dependency of analgesia elicited by oral sucrose during routine immunizations
Linda A. Hatfield, PhD, Judith Hupcey, EdD, Vernon Chinchilli, PhD, Mary Beth Clark, EdD and Cheston Berlin, MD

Transfusion-induced opioid requirements: Results of a first clinical study and its consequences
Cristina Tamasdan, Natalie Moryl, Dana Tarcatu, Amanda R. Weyerbacher, Maryam Jahdi, Andrew Faskowitz, Eugenie Obbens and Charles E. Inturrisi

Measurement of pain, fatigue and relaxation after complementary pain interventions for people with developmental disabilities
Diane Zelman, PhD, Rhoda Olkin, Nancy Rosenberg, Maureen Berndt and Kathryn Goldman Schulyer

The Association of Ancestry Informative Markers with Experimental Pain Sensitivity
Deborah M. Herbstman, BA, Xianyun Mao, Mark D. Shriver, Dyanne Herrera, Bridgett Rahim-Williams, MA, MPH, PhD, Margaret Wallace and Roger B. Fillingim, PhD

The effects of opioids and tricyclic antidepressants on pain-related catastrophizing in patients with postherpetic neuralgia
Jennifer Haythornthwaite, PhD, Robert Edwards, Luis Buenaver, Claudia Campbell and Srinivasa Raja, MD

The Neural Correlates of Catastrophizing: an fMRI Study
Robert Edwards, PhD