title: Methods for measuring pain in laboratory animals.
abstract: Pain is one of the most important variables that members of the lab animal science community try to control and minimize, and it is a critical topic of research in clinical and basic sciences. Objective measurements of pain severity, especially in non-verbal animals that are used as disease models, can be difficult to obtain, but several developments in behavioral neuroscience are making the measurement of pain more consistent, automated and accurate.
authors.forename: Dustin M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Graham
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000830:Animals, Laboratory; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D005149:Facial Expression; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology; D059225:Nociception; D010146:Pain / Q000503:physiopathology; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000379:methods*