1. Electrophysiological phenotyping of neuropathic pain following spinal cord injury 2. Spinal cord injury pain: A retrospective 3. Central neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury: Therapeutic opportunities. A brief history and temporal progression of the pathophysiology from acute trauma to chronic conditions 4. Mechanisms of pain below the level of spinal cord injury (SCI) 5. Devil’s advocate: Why past and future animal models of neuropathic pain in spinal cord injury are without merit 6. Counterpoint: Why animal models are indispensable for translational pain research in spinal cord injury 7. Behavioral assays of pain in rodent models of spinal cord injury 8. Biomarker signatures for neuropathic pain after SCI 9. Decoding nociception in the spinal cord: Computer modeling and machine learning 10. EEG biomarkers of pain and applications of machine learning 11. Perspectives on preclinical evidence for translation in SCI 12. Screening and treatment of neuropathic pain after SCI

Part II: Mechanisms of CNP following SCI Section 1: Spinal and supraspinal mechanisms 13. Spinal GABA mechanism in neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury 14. Glial activation and neuropathic pain 15. Mechanisms of CNP following SCI: Chemokines in neuronal-glial cell interaction

Section 2: Peripheral mechanisms 16. When soft touch hurts: How hugs become painful after spinal cord injury 17. Peripheral mechanisms contributing to central neuropathic pain following SCI

Section 3: Clinical applications of novel targets and technologies 18. Human neural stem cell transplantation for improved recovery after spinal cord injury 19. Cell transplantation for reducing neuropathic pain after SCI 20. Gene therapy of neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury 21. Exercise as a therapeutic intervention for neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury