The Cheryl Spencer Institute for Nursing Research
Tel: 04-6647904 | email: nurs_res@univ.haifa.ac.il
Prof. Dorit Pud
Head, The human experimental pain research laboratory
dpud@univ.haifa.ac.il
Tel: +972-4-8288002
Research Interests
Higher Education
Recent Publications
Research Interests
- Psychophysical assessment of pain
- Factors predicting pain perception
- Use of medical cannabis for pain management
Higher Education
1982 | B.Sc in Nursing, registered nurse (RN) | The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Faculty of Medicine, School of nursing | |
1997 | M.A in Nursing | University of Tel-Aviv, Sackler School of Medicine, Department of nursing | |
2002 | Ph.D. in Neurophysiology | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine | |
2006 | Ph.D. in Biomedical Science | University of Aalborg, Denmark, Sensory-Motor Interaction (SMI) center |
Recent Publications
- Suzan, E., Treister, R., Pud, D., Haddad, M., Eisenberg, E. (2015) The effect of hydromorphone therapy on psychophysical measurements of the descending inhibitory pain systems in patients with chronic radicular pain. Pain Medicine 16 (1) 168-175 doi: 10.1111/pme.12565.
- Treister, R., Eisenberg, E., Demeter, N., and Pud, D. (2015) Alterations in pain response are partially reversed by methylphenidate (Ritalin) in adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Pain Practice 15 (1) 4-11 doi: 10.1111/papr.12129.
- Pud, D. (2015) The psychometric properties of the Hebrew version of the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (MSAS). Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 49(4) 790-795 doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.08.016. [IF=2.73; 5-yr IF=3.24; rank: clinical neurology 73/194 Q2, health care science and services 20/86 Q1, medicine general and internal 29/156 Q1; V]
- Treister, R., Nielsen, C.S., Stubhaug, A., Farrar , J., Pud, D., Sawilowsky, S. and Oaklander, A.L. (2015) Experimental assessment of parametric versus nonparametric statistics in human pain research: The cold pressor test as an example. Journal of Pain 16 (6) 537-548 doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2015.03.001
- Aviram, J., Shochat, T. and Pud, D. (2015) Pain sensitivity in healthy young men is modified by time-of-day and is modality dependent. Pain Medicine 16 (6) 1137-1144 doi: 10.1111/pme.12665
- Suzan, E., Aviram, J., Treister, R., Eisenberg, E and Pud, D. (2015) Individually-based measurement of temporal summation evoked by a noxious tonic heat paradigm. Journal of Pain Research 16;8:409-15. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S83352
- Demeter, N., Josman, N., Pud, D. (2015) Who can benefit from virtual reality to reduce experimental pain? A crossover study in healthy subjects. European Journal of Pain 19 (10) 1467-1475doi: 10.1002/ejp.678.
- Suzan, E., Midbari, A., Pud, D., Hadad, S. and Eisenberg, E. (2016) Clinical analgesia correlates with decline in temporal summation in response to remifentanil infusion in patients with chronic neuropathic (radicular) pain Journal of Opioid Management 12 (4) 251-8 doi: 10.5055/jom.2016.0340.
- Zlotnick, C., Lawental, M. and Pud, D. (2017) Double Whammy: Adverse Childhood Events and Pain Reflect Symptomology and Quality of Life in Women in Substance Abuse Treatment. Social Work in Health Care 56(3) 189-201 doi: 10.1080/00981389.2016.1265629.
- Pud, D., Broitman, E., Hamid, O., Suzan, E., Aviram, J., Haddad, M., Hadad S., Shemesh, R. and Eisenberg, E. (2017) Methylphenidate hydrochloride (Ritalin®) attenuates the response to experimental cold-pain but not to aversive auditory stimuli in healthy subjects. Pain Reports. 14;2(3):e593. doi: 10.1097/PR9.0000000000000593
- Meiselles, D., Aviram, J., Suzan, E., Pud, D. and Eisenberg, E. (2017) Does Self-Perception of Sensitivity to Pain Correlate with Actual Sensitivity to Experimental Pain? Journal of Pain Research 10: 2657-2663
- Demeter, N., Pud, D. and Josman, N. (2018) Cognitive components predict virtual reality induced analgesia: Repeated measures in healthy subjects. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, section Virtual Environments doi: 10.3389/frobt.2017.00070
- Suzan, E., Pud, D. and Eisenberg, E. (2018) A crucial administration timing separates between beneficial and counterproductive effects of opioids on postoperative pain– Topical review. PAIN doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001200.
- Haddad, M., Pud, D., Treister, R., Suzan, E. and Eisenberg, E. (2018). The effect of dopamine agonist (apomorphine) on cold pain tolerance in patients with chronic neuropathic pain. Plos One 5;13(4):e0195287. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0195287
- Grouper, H., Eisenberg, E., and Pud, D. (2019) The relationship between sensitivity to pain and conditioned pain modulation in healthy people Neuroscience Letters 708:134333. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2019.134333.
- Zisberg, A., Shulyaev, K., Gur-Yaish, N., Agmon, M., and Pud, D. (2021) Subgrouping hospitalized older adults based on symptoms experienced and its relationship to characteristics and outcomes. Geriatric Nursing 42(1) 240-246 doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2020.08.007
- Aviram, J., Pud, D., Berkovitch, T., Schiff-Keren, B., Ogintz, M., Vulfsons, S., Yashar, T., Adahan, H.M., Brill, S., Amital, H., Goor-Aryeh, I., Robinson, D., Green, L., Segal, R., Fogelman, Y., Tsvieli, O., Yellin, B., Vysotski, Y., Morag, O., Tashlykov, V., Sheinfeld, R., Goor, R., Meiri, D., and Eisenberg, E. (2021) Estimation of Response to Long Term treatment with Herbal Cannabis for Chronic Pain and Related Symptoms. European Journal of Pain 25(2): 359-374 doi: 10.1002/ejp.1675.
- Segal, N., Pud, D., Amir, H., Ratmansky, M., Honigman, L., Treister. R. (2021) Treating Phantom Pain: Additive Analgesic Effect of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation with Mirror Therapy. Pain Medicine 23:22(2) 255-265 doi: 10.1093/pm/pnaa388.