It might work, but does it work in the manner you think it does? We sometimes have some pretty whacky mechanisms to explain treatments that work and I am on the record as saying that we need to be open-minded about how an apparently effective treatment might work. Well, it seems that the psychology world is dealing with the same issues...
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It might work, but does it work in the manner you think it does? Another good talk at the American Pain Society meeting in Honolulu.
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Vania Apkarian and the holy grail
Vania Apkarian and his group at NorthWestern in Chicago have been working for over a decade on functional and structural brain imaging in people with chronic pain. Over that time, his group has stamped its name on much of what is known about the brain of people in chronic pain. Here is a bit of what his group, and others, have discovered.
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Part two of Parallel worlds collide… and we all see stars, or astrocytes at least
Immune activation can produce some powerful and longlasting behaviour changes. Take single event learning for example - Ader and Cohen's seminal study proved that the immune system response could be behaviourally conditioned. So how does thinking about immune activation have the potential to change our intervention?
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Parallel worlds collide… and we all see stars, or astrocytes at least
Perhaps our language has always hinted at the involvement of glial cells in injury? And, when glial cells outnumber neurons in the brain by 20 to 1, it begs the question who is really in charge of synaptic activity (should that be plasticity) in the brain?
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Pelvic Pain – all the fun stuff
Many of us here at BiM went to the Festival de NOI a couple of weeks ago. It was fab. However, we know that most of you couldn’t make it and we thought we would ...