Chronic pain treatments more effective when taken together, new study shows
...felt as a burning sensation and often makes normal touch excruciatingly painful. Both conditions are due to nerve damage and/or injury, and are associated with the experience of pain in an apparently uninjured area, Dr. Gilron explains. Most of the current treatments for this condition cause side effects, ...Rat whisking may provide insight into debilitating eye disorder
... example, such a reflex occurs if you accidentally touch a hot stove. On the other hand, the newly discovered reflex circuit that controls rats' whiskers as rats explore their environment is a positive feedback loop. It helps rats keep their whiskers on an object, enabling them to gather an uninterrupted ...Spinal repair pioneer to speak in NY on 20th Jan
...nal injury high in the neck region), could recover touch sensation and movement of the hands, and regain the ability to dress, feed and clean independently. Professor Raisman's key discovery was that there is one part of the nervous system, a region in the nasal cavity concerned with the sense of smell, in...Spinal cord injury patients show improvement in early device study
...aluate sensory recovery: pinprick sensation, light touch sensation and motor function. Patients recorded a ...inprick sensation, 25.5 points (maximum 112) light touch sensation, and 6.3 points (maximum 100) for improved motor function. The patients had no sensation b...Youki spray curbs spread of superbug MRSA
...uiring healthcare staff, patients or caregivers to touch wound dressings. The CDC gives this advice on preventing staph or MRSA infections: practice good hygiene; keep your hands clean by washing thoroughly with soap and water; keep cuts and abrasions clean and covered with a proper dressing (e.g., bandage...Brain can be trained to process sound in alternate way, study shows
...senses. Physical stimuli such as light, sound, and touch are converted by our sensory organs -- eyes, ears, and skin -- into electrical signals, which are processed by neurons in different areas of the brain. As those neurons fire, we see, hear, and feel. When the light or sound changes in intensity, our n...Child health must become UNICEF's priority over next decade
...ortant decision of your career -- its effects will touch the lives of millions of those who have no voice. Be their voice"....Subanalysis finds patient-controlled, transdermal pain management system may be comparable
...fore, the fentanyl gels should not be permitted to touch the fingers or mouth. Oral contact or ingestion of the fentanyl-containing gel may cause life-threatening hypoventilation or death....Some antibiotic resistance threat in hospitals could yield to hand washing
...doctors and nurses to wash their hands before they touch you, and for patients to tell their caregivers to wash their hands before they touch you. Song led a look-back study of 2,279 patients admitted to Hopkins between 2000 and 2002. None of...Mothers have brains primed for care
...ng's later social difficulties. Nurturing through touch can lessen some of the negative effects of early stress. "Understanding the mechanisms at work in parenting and the effects of disruptions to the bonds created between parents and children is vitally important," says Bruce McEwen, PhD, of Rockefell......you,' she added. The landmark study will stay in touch with the volunteers for 10 years and compare those who develop breast cancer with the majority who do not. While past studies have largely focused on hormones, reproductive health, and lifestyle, the Sister Study will take the most detailed look eve...Northwestern researchers pinpoint how false memories are formed
...hat we forget quite a bit, but we're not always in touch with the idea that our memories can sometimes can be misleading." For this procedure of measuring brain activity, people lay down in an MRI machine as they looked at a screen with a series of words, all concrete nouns, and pictures, and the...Study: Brain battles itself over short-term rewards, long-term goals
...at produce emotional reactions, such as the sight, touch or smell of a desirable object, often cause people to take impulsive actions that they later regret," Loewenstein said. Such psychological cues are known to trigger dopamine-related circuits in the brain similar to the ones that responded to immediat...Long-sought key to hearing may be found in protein discovery
... A small clan known as TRPN help fruit flies sense touch and fish hear. At the beginning of their study, Corey and his colleagues systematically evaluated all of the several dozen mouse TRP channels with RNA probes to locate the ones expressed by hair cells of the mouse cochlea. TRPA1 looked most promising...Universit de Montral study shows superior sound-location skills in the blind
...on hearing in near space that can be calibrated by touch or, for example, with a cane. For this particular study, Professor Lepore and his team subjected three groups of ten people each (early- and late-onset blind subjects and a control group of blindfolded, sighted subjects) to spatial hearing tests in w...Diabetes increases deaths among people 65 and older
...ly members not to worry much about a grandmother's touch of sugar," Bertoni said. "These new findings suggest that prevention of diabetes among the elderly should be a priority," Bertoni said. "The Diabetes Prevention Program has shown that diabetes in high-risk individuals can be prevented." He said the p...Univeristy of Utah anesthesiologists on front lines in battle against post-operative pain
...ive them medication and, unfortunately, it doesn't touch the pain." Swenson and other U anesthesiologists studied 20 opioid-tolerant patients undergoing back surgery and who received the pain medication fentanyl immediately prior to their operations. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid used for pain control tha...Sounds of New York, evidence for a preferred ear, ultrasound for the eye
...'t run on electricity. The idea is the following: touch any object in a room, and an acoustic detector records the sound or vibration from a touch. Then, employing a scheme known as "time-reversed" acoustics, the detector sends a reversed version of the soundwave to the object. After sending soundwaves b...Going low tech, low cost to ease the terrors of dementia
...lessen the pain residents feel as they slowly lose touch with reality. To help nursing home employees keep up, the John A. Hartford Foundation and the University of Rochester School of Nursing are working with area nursing homes to explore new ways to ease dementia among residents. "There's a lot that can......ies about how the brain processes sight, sound and touch may need updating. Researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues report their findings in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Using electrodes smaller than a human hair, resear...