Neuroinflammation and Chronic Pain Link Established: Authors Call for Treatment Trials
“the present findings offer clinical implications that may serve to guide future studies of the pathophysiology and management of a variety of persistent pain conditions.” Loggia et. al. Chronic pain was thought for many years to be mostly a neuronal problem. Over or...
Sensory Distress: The Other Side of Fibromyalgia
“If we lose sight of pleasures … that intoxicate the senses in the most sensuous and beautiful and simplest of ways, then we’ve lost a lot.” – Savannah Page Researchers have used heat, electricity, chemicals, and pressure to evoke pain in FM...
Shape Shifting Pain: How Chronic Pain Turns the Brain More ‘Emotional’
Recently we saw that some people appear to be sitting ducks for chronic pain. Their brains have apparently reached a state, unbeknownst to them, where all that’s needed for a chronic pain state to emerge is a triggering event such as an injury. That triggering...Brain Burn, Brain Drain and Low Blood Flows: A Neurologist on ‘Cognition and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – What Do We Know’?’
This overview of the CFIDS Association of America’s webinar on cognition in 2012 was produced while I was with Phoenix Rising but was never published. We just published Dr. Lapps take on cognition and possible ways to treat it. Now, that we’ve got an overview of...
Unusual Type of Nerve Damage Causes Fatigue and Pain in People with Gulf War Illness and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
(Dr. Baraniuk finds damage to a critical nerve pathway that connects regions of the brain involved in fatigue and pain production and autonomic nervous system regulation. The damage, which affects the integrity of the nerve axons, is unusual and suggests GWS and...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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