David Borsook

ORCID: 0000-0001-9825-0064 · 10 papers in corpus
observational 2025
Communications biology ·doi:10.1038/s42003-025-08952-6

Endometriosis is a highly prevalent and often painful gynecological condition that can emerge in adolescence and can be experienced throughout a person's lifetime. This cross-sectional investigation performed structural brain imaging and a …

2023
·doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2023.02.222
other 2023
Neurophotonics ·doi:10.1117/1.nph.10.2.025014

SIGNIFICANCE: Quantitative measurement of perisurgical brain function may provide insights into the processes contributing to acute and chronic postsurgical pain. AIM: We evaluate the hemodynamic changes in the prefrontal cortex (medial fr…

observational 2023
Children (Basel, Switzerland) ·doi:10.3390/children10091562

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) is a rare disease affecting the skin, joints, vasculature, and internal organs. Approximately 85% of those affected are categorized as the hypermobile type (hEDS), which is associated with numerous medical and p…

observational 2022
European journal of paediatric neurology : EJPN : official journal of the European Paediatric Neurology Society ·doi:10.1016/j.ejpn.2022.10.004

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is the leading cause of chronic pelvic pain. Alterations in brain functional connectivity have been reported in adult women with endometriosis-associated pain (EAP), however, it is still unknown if similar patterns…

other 2020
Journal of pain research ·doi:10.2147/jpr.s276135

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Endometriosis, affecting approximately 176 million adults and adolescents worldwide, is a debilitating condition in which uterine tissue grows outside the uterus. The condition costs the US economy approximately $7…

review 2019
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews ·doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.12.004

Endometriosis, a condition in which uterine tissue grows outside the uterus, is a debilitating disease, affecting millions of women and costing the United States approximately $78 billion annually in pain- related disability. It is also the…

diagnostic-accuracy 2015
Pain ·doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000199

Moderate to severe chronic pain is a problem for 1.7 million children, costing $19.5 billion dollars annually in the United States alone. Risk-stratified care is known to improve outcomes in adults with chronic pain. However, no tool exists…

review 2013
Rambam Maimonides medical journal ·doi:10.5041/rmmj.10133

This review describes some of the recent developments in imaging aspects of pain in the periphery. It is now possible to image nerves in the cornea non-invasively, to image receptor level expression and inflammatory processes in injured tis…

review 2013
Progress in neurobiology ·doi:10.1016/j.pneurobio.2013.02.003

Evaluating external and internal stimuli is critical to survival. Potentially tissue-damaging conditions generate sensory experiences that the organism must respond to in an appropriate, adaptive manner (e.g., withdrawal from the noxious st…