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‘Good Vibrations’! Brain Ultrasound Improves Mood
Non-invasive brain stimulation techniques aimed at mental and neurological conditions include transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for depression, and transcranial direct current (electrical) stimulation (tDCS), shown to improve memory. Transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) has also shown promise. |
Released: 5/14/2013 3:20 PM EDT
Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona, Anesthesiology |
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War Spawns New Approaches for Wounded Service Members’ Pain CareBetter body armor and rapid aeromedical evacuations enable American service members to survive blasts that would have proved fatal in Vietnam or even the first Gulf War, but they pose new challenges to military medicine – how to deal with the excruciating pain of injuries, especially severe burns from IED blasts that body armor can’t protect. |
Released: 5/10/2013 10:00 PM EDT
American Pain Society |
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More Clinical Attention Needed for Assessing Pain in Older AdultsAlthough several types of pain assessment tools are available to help clinicians evaluate pain in older people, too often the sole initial emphasis is to gauge pain intensity instead of determining how the pain affects function and the need for treatment, according to research presented at the American Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting, www.americanpainsociety.org. |
Embargo expired: 5/10/2013 10:00 AM EDT
Released: 5/9/2013 5:00 PM EDT
American Pain Society |
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Investments in Pain Grants Must Be a Top U.S. Health Care PriorityFederal funding for pain research remains at disproportionately low levels despite overwhelming evidence that untreated and undertreated chronic pain is costing the nation more than $600 billion a year in medical costs and lost work time, and is expected to soar even higher as the population continues to age, according to the American Pain Society, www.americanpainsociety.org. Pain research accounts for only about 1 percent of research grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a massive, unjustifiable disparity given the imbalanced proportion of U.S. health care expenditures attributed to pain. |
Embargo expired: 5/10/2013 10:00 AM EDT
Released: 5/9/2013 5:00 PM EDT
American Pain Society |
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Chronic Pain Sufferers Likely to Have AnxietyPatients coping with chronic pain should also be evaluated for anxiety disorders, according to new research published in General Hospital Psychiatry. |
Released: 5/8/2013 5:00 PM EDT
Health Behavior News Service |
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Persistent Pain After Stressful Events May Have a Neurobiological Basis
A new study led by UNC School of Medicine researchers is the first to identify a genetic risk factor for persistent pain after traumatic events such as motor vehicle collision and sexual assault. The study also contributes further evidence that persistent pain after stressful events has a specific biological basis. |
Released: 5/2/2013 11:00 AM EDT
University of North Carolina School of Medicine |
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Regular, Moderate Exercise Does Not Worsen Pain in People with FibromyalgiaFor many people who have fibromyalgia, even the thought of exercising is painful. Yet a new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center shows that exercise does not worsen the pain associated with the disorder and may even lessen it over time. The findings are published in the current online issue of the journal Arthritis Care & Research. |
Released: 5/2/2013 10:50 AM EDT
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center |
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One Bad Gene: Mutation that Causes Rare Sleep Disorder Linked to MigrainesA gene mutation associated with a rare sleep disorder surprisingly also contributes to debilitating migraines, a new discovery that could change the treatment of migraines by allowing development of drugs specifically designed to treat the chronic headaches. |
Released: 5/1/2013 6:00 PM EDT
University of Utah Health Sciences |
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Genetic Mutation Linked with Typical Form of Migraine
A research team led by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of California, San Francisco has identified a genetic mutation that is strongly associated with a typical form of migraine. |
Embargo expired: 5/1/2013 2:00 PM EDT
Released: 4/29/2013 4:00 PM EDT
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) |
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Pain, Epigenetics and Endometriosis: Research Team Wants to Know How Molecular Tweaks Affect Which Women Hurt the MostMost of us probably know at least one woman, and maybe quite a few more, with endometriosis. Despite the disease’s prevalence, there is no consensus on the cause of it, the existing treatment options leave a lot to be desired, and there are too few ways for women to, at the very least, effectively numb the pain that the disease provokes. A team of researchers hunting biomarkers to be used in diagnostics and perhaps a personalized approach to treating endometriosis will present its findings Tuesday at the Experimental Biology 2013 conference in Boston. |
Embargo expired: 4/23/2013 1:05 PM EDT
Released: 4/18/2013 7:00 AM EDT
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) |