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RELIEF: PAIN RESEARCH NEWS, INSIGHTS AND IDEAS

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  • Archive

    May 2012

  • 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.

    BIM · May 31, 2012

    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...

    Body In Mind
  • Vania Apkarian and the holy grail

    BIM · May 28, 2012

    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.

    Body In Mind
  • Part two of Parallel worlds collide… and we all see stars, or astrocytes at least

    BIM · May 21, 2012

    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?

    Body In Mind
  • Parallel worlds collide… and we all see stars, or astrocytes at least

    BIM · May 18, 2012

    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?

    Body In Mind
  • Pelvic Pain – all the fun stuff

    BIM · May 9, 2012

    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 ...

    Body In Mind
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