Roger
B. Fillingim
Department
of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science
Associate
Professor
Phone:
(352)273-5963
E-mail:
rfilling@ufl.edu
Ph.D.,
University of Alabama
at Birmingham, 1990
Main
Interests:
My research
investigates biological,
social, and psychological factors that may influence the experience of
pain. Pain is perhaps the most widespread and expensive health
problem
in the United States. My research uses standard psychophysical,
or
sensory testing, procedures to assess people’s responses to pain.
The major line of research in my laboratory focuses on how women and
men
experience pain differently. Women generally report more pain in
daily life than men, and they also show lower pain thresholds. We
are also interested in understanding the reasons for these differences,
and his research examines psychosocial factors (e.g. mood, coping, sex
roles) as well as physiological variables such as hormone levels and
blood
pressure. In addition, we are studying whether pain-relieving
medications
work differently for women and men and whether sex hormones can change
the effectiveness of pain medicines. I have also investigated
certain
pain disorders, especially those that are more common in women than
men,
including TMJ pain. More recently, we have begun examining ethnic
differences in the experience of pain, and we would like to expand this
line of research in the future. My research is primarily funded
by
the National Institutes of Health.
Publications:
Mogil, J.S.,
Wilson, S.G.,
Chesler, E.J., Rankin, A.L., Nemmani, K.V.S., Lariviere, W.R., Groce,
M.K.,
Wallace, M.R., Kaplan, L., Staud, R., Ness, T.J., Glover, T.L.,
Stankova,
M., Mayorov, A., Hruby, V.J., Grisel, J.E., and Fillingim, R.B. (in
press).
The melanocortin-1 receptor gene mediates female-specific mechanisms of
analgesia in mice and humans, Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences. Read this article.
Lowery, D.,
Fillingim, R.B.
& Wright, R.A. (2003). Sex differences and incentive effects
on perceptual and cardiovascular responses to cold pressor pain.
Psychosomatic
Medicine, 65, 284-291.
Fillingim,
R.B., Doleys, D.M.,
Edwards, R.R. & Lowery, D. (2003). Clinical characteristics
of
chronic back pain as a function of gender and oral opioid use.
Spine,
28, 143-150.
Edwards,
R.R., Fillingim,
R.B. & Ness, T.J. (2003). Age-related differences in
endogenous
pain modulation: a comparison of diffuse noxious inhibitory controls in
healthy older and younger adults. Pain, 101, 155-165.
Doleys, D.M.
& Fillingim,
R.B. (in press). Approaches to pain management: psychological
considerations
of surgical importance. In H.H. Batjer & C.M. Loftus (Eds.)
Textbook
of Neurological Surgery, Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven.
Fillingim,
R.B. & Jafri,
I. (in press). Pain in patients with disability: Gender differences,
psychosocial
factors and medical management. In F.P. Haseltine (Ed.) Women
with
Disabilities: A Comprehensive Guide to Care, Philadelphia: Lippincott
Williams
& Wilkins.
Edwards,
R.R., Augustson,
E.A. & Fillingim, R.B. (2003). Effects of pain-related
anxiety
on pain treatment outcomes: differential effects for males and
females.
Clinical Journal of Pain, 19, 208-216.
Fillingim,
R.B., Doleys, D.M.,
Edwards, R.R. & Lowery, D. (2003). Spousal responses are
differentially
associated with clinical variables in women and men with chronic
pain.
Clinical Journal of Pain, 19, 217-224.
Fillingim,
R.B. (2003) Sex-related
influences on pain: a review of mechanisms and clinical
implications.
Rehabilitation Psychology, 48, 165-174.
Fillingim,
R.B. (2003) Sex,
gender and pain: The biopsychosocial model in action XX vs. XY:
The
International Journal of Sex Differences in the Study of Health,
Disease
and Aging, 1:98-101.
Gagliese, L.
& Fillingim,
R.B. (2003) Age and sex interactions in the experience of pain.
XX
vs. XY: The International Journal of Sex Differences in the Study of
Health,
Disease and Aging, 1: 124-131.
Fillingim,
R.B. & Edwards,
R.R. (in press). Is self-reported childhood abuse history
associated
with pain perception among healthy young women and men? Clinical
Journal of Pain.
See
Dr. Fillingim's Curriculum Vita
See
Dr. Fillingim's Lab
Page
GMS 7611
