Pain, itself, elicits pain relief, and does so through 'reward' pathway
...y activating thenucleus accumbens, might itself be experienced as rewarding, as appears to occurin self-injurious behaviors. Interestingly, treatment for this class ofdisorders, characterized by pursuit of painful experiences often for apparentthrill-seeking value, includes administration of naloxone, a drug tha......than at night. Their bodies wanted to sleep sothey experienced daytime fatigue," explains Vgontzas. Another finding of the study was that light sleep was associated withincreased amount of IL-6 during the day while a good night's sleep wasassociated with decreased day time secretion of IL-6 and a good s...Renowned researcher in prenatal diagnostics joins Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
... her second child, sheand her husband, Aidan, have experienced the benefits of prenatal diagnosticsfirst-hand. In early 1997, when Kate underwent nuchal translucency screening before theNovember birth of their son, Eagan, the results were in the borderlinehigh/normal range. "At that time, there wasn't any known ...Study finds HIV breastfeeding risk highest in early months after birth
...gues speculate that mothers who arerelatively less experienced with breastfeeding are more likely to havesubclinical mastitis, an inflammation of the mammary tissue, and thereby ahigher HIV transmission rate. The researchers note that in another recent studyconducted among a separate population of women in Mala...Emergency angioplasty or bypass surgery saves lives of heart attack patients with cardiogenic shock
...t both 30 days and 6 months, patients under age 75 experienced thegreatest benefit from early revascularization. The SHOCK trial results were considered among the most importantcontributions to the recently revised Guidelines for the Management of Patientswith Acute Myocardial Infarction. These guidelin...Mitral valve repair at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center gets Los Angeles dentist on the road to recovery
...with regular EKGs. Then last October, Dr. Bredberg experienced an alarming episode while visiting in Santa Fe tha...ems to ask their physicians about seeing a surgeon experienced in mitral valve repair. "Many patients aren't aware they can have a repair rather than a replacement...... than two-thirds of quarterbacks and tightends had experienced at leastone concussion, while one-third of running backs/fullbacks had a history ofconcussion." Dr. Collins and colleagues studied 393 male college football players from fourDivision IA programs: Michigan State University, University of Florida,Univ...Hard liquor, not beer or wine, may explain trends in cirrhosis mortality
...l Journal.Cirrhosis mortality in the United States experienced a long-term increase afterWorld War II, peaked in 1973, then steadily declined to half its peak rate by1994. Total alcohol consumption - as measured by combining the alcohol(ethanol) contributions of beer, wine, and liquor - also increased over thep...Popular notions about breast cancer-psychology link challenged
... and repressionin response to life stressors, have experienced separation and loss, and have ahistory of stressful life experiences. Less support, but still significant, wasfound for an association between breast cancer and a personality stylecharacterized by conflict avoidance. The research appears in the Se...UCSF finding could lead to a new class of painkillers
...to normal rats exposed to stimulation, the animals experienced heightened pain. But when the factor was injected in animals in which PKC was inhibited, their pain threshold was higher. "These results suggest that PKC plays a key role in regulating pain sensitivity," said a senior author of the UCSF paper, Rober...'Silent stroke' linked to depression
...ered a questionnaire to measuredepressive symptoms experienced in the previous week. Silent strokes were diagnosed by examining lesions in the basal ganglia, alsocalled the 'subcortical gray matter.' Located deep within the brain, the basalganglia acts as a relay station between different parts of the brain by...New research method reveals high-density information storage in the brain
...vestigate how big the region on the neuron wasthat experienced LTD. They found that this region was not bigger than theresolution of their method, i.e. only a few Micrometer. Thus, even singlesynapses may undergo long-term depression and each single synapse could be usedto store information separately from its n...... thedevice was used. "As we suspected, the spouses experienced significant improvements in sleepquality when their husbands were treated with the device," Dr. Shepard says."The average percentage of time that spouses spent sleeping increased from 74percent to 87 percent, which adds more than an extra hour of sle...Results of NUVANCE phase I/II asthma trial presented
...orticosteroids, patients in the 3 mg NUVANCE group experienced continued asthma control over the 12 week treatment period with minimal decline in forced expiratory volume (FEV1), a mean of -2.2%, compared to a greater decline in FEV1 in the placebo group, a mean of -13.2%. FEV1 is a standard measurement of lung...Suicide is higher among socially fragmented rather than deprived populations
... rates of suicide. Moreover, constituencies which experienced the greatest increases in social fragmentation between 1981 and 1991 tended to have the greatest increases in suicide rates over the same period, say the authors, although this effect was not seen in older people. Whitley et al found that nine of the...No evidence to suggest breast cancer is linked to stress
...sed with breast cancer were no more likely to have experienced any more stress in their lives that those diagnose...mmon (about two thirds of women with a breast lump experienced at least one severe life event or difficulty in the five years before). They conclude that women wi...Mayo Clinic study shows increased incidence of migraine headaches
...gy. According to the study, women age 20-29 years experienced the highest incidenceand the most striking increase in incidence over time -- an increase fromapproximately 600 new cases to almost 1,000 new cases per 100,000 women peryear. "There are several possible reasons for this trend," says Walter Rocca, M.D...New medication effective against muscle disorder
...ough more patients receivingbotulinum toxin type B experienced dry mouth than those who had previouslyreceived type A. Both studies were supported by grants from Athena Neurosciences, Inc., whichmarkets botulinum toxin type B under the trade name NeuroBloc.The American Academy of Neurology, an association of mor...New study shows link between sex and violence among N.C. high school males
...Health. In 1997, 40.5 percent of sexually experienced males who carried a gunto school had been involved in a pregnancy, while only 13.2 percent of non-guncarriers had been involved in a pregnancy, according to the report. Also, 27percent of males who had been in six or more fights in the last year had ......th clubfoot can communicate with families who have experienced the Ponseti Method of treatment. "It is my hope that vehicles such as this class and the new web site will inspire other physicians and parents to more actively and vocally promote non-surgical treatment for clubfoot," said Ponseti. "Ultimately, eac...