aDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Maryland Dental School, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201-1510, USA
bResearch Center for Neuroendocrine Influences on Pain, Baltimore, MD 21201-1510, USA
cDepartment of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4820, USA
dDepartment of Oral Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-6370, USA
eLaboratory for Experimental Pain Research, Department of Health Science and Technology, Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7, DK-9220 Aalborg, Denmark
fDepartment of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
gDepartment of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science, University of Florida College of Dentistry, Gainesville, FL 32610-3628, USA
hDepartment of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
iDivision of Surgery, Oncology, Reproductive Biology and Anaesthetics, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Imperial College, London SW10 9NH, UK
jDepartment of Physiological Psychology, University of Bamberg, Bamberg 96045, Germany
kCenter for Neurovisceral Sciences and Women’s Health, and Departments of Medicine, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Physiology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 900095-1792, USA
lDepartment of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada PQ H3A 1B1
mDepartment of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303-0389, USA
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2Sex, Gender, and Pain SIG Consensus Working Group: Anna Maria Aloisi, University of Sienna, Italy; Lars Arendt-Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark; Art Arnold, UCLA, USA; Dave Bereiter, University of Minnesota, USA; Karen Berkley, Florida State University, USA; Jeffrey Blaustein, University of Massachusetts, USA; Richard Bodnar, Queens College, CUNY, USA; Lin Chang, UCLA, USA; Rebecca Craft, Washington State University, USA; Roger Fillingim, University of Florida, USA; Alan Gintzler, SUNY Downstate, USA; Michael Gold, University of Pittsburgh, USA; Joel Greenspan, University of Maryland, USA; Ken Hargreaves, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA; Anita Holdcroft, Imperial College, London, UK; Edmund Keogh, University of Bath, UK; Stefan Lautenbacher, University of Bamburg, Germany; Linda LeResche, University of Washington, USA; Emeran Mayer, UCLA, USA; Margaret McCarthy, University of Maryland, USA; Jeffrey Mogil, McGill University, Canada; Anne Murphy, Georgia State University, USA; Bruce Naliboff, UCLA, USA; Michael Robinson, University of Florida, USA; Meir Steiner, McMaster University, Canada; Christian Stohler, University of Maryland, USA; Richard Traub, University of Maryland, USA; Ursula Wesselmann, Johns Hopkins University, USA; Elizabeth Young, University of Michigan, USA.
Submitted September 10, 2007; accepted October 9, 2007.