Pain-blog Carnival How to Cope with Pain has a blog pain carnival for December to round off the year. Great work – a review of blogs (thanks for the mention) and some interesting articles. Check it out: December Pain-Blog ...
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Check out the December Pain-Blog Carnival
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TED Talk – Ramachandran on Capgras syndrome, Phantom Limb Pain and Synesthesia
If you haven’t seen Vilayanur Ramachandran’s talk on what is happening in the Brain in Capgras syndrome, Phantom Limb Pain, and Synesthesia this is well worth a peek More thoughts on training the brain in CRPS: Reflections, ...
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The Brain in CRPS-More Barriers or New Opportunities
From a biological perspective, I find CRPS very perplexing. So do many other people—the community of scientists that are pursuing better treatments, through a better understanding of the basic mechanisms, or by developing better animal models of CRPS, or by undertaking clinical investigations and clinical trials, ...
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What is Complex Regional Pain Syndrome – in plain English
What is Complex Regional Pain Syndrome? Well, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is exactly that Complex: Many, many different problems have been identified in people with CRPS. These problems can be severe and usually involve ...
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Sharing painful experiences in the brain
Still more evidence that we are fearfully and wonderfully complex. This study from Stuart Derbyshire’s group at Birmingham, UK, and published in the premier pain journal, PAIN, involved two parts. First, they grabbed a hundred ...