Media Article: 'High-Tech Brain Images Helps Patients Learn to Handle Pain'

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| March 21, 2006 | Permanent Link
Here's an interesting article about a NIH-funded study that's being done on chronic pain and the brain...

"There may be a high-tech way to teach people to handle chronic pain, scientists report.

(...) In a news release, Mackey says he and his colleagues believe the patients who got real-time brain scans "really learned to control their brain, and, through that, their pain."

(...) "However, significantly more science and testing must be done before this can be considered a treatment for chronic pain," Mackey says. [Sean Mackey, MD, PhD, a Stanford assistant professor of anesthesia]"

-- Miranda Hitti, High-Tech Brain Images Helps Patients Learn to Handle Pain, WebMD Medical News --


To read the full article (2 pages long), click here!

Claire
Editor of Sleepydust



Have Your Say! The 'M.E. People's Day 2006' Petition

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Hi Everyone,

Jo here, the Sleepydust Forum Manager. There is now a petition highlighting the need for clear and concise clinical guidelines for M.E, which is to be presented to Parliament on 3rd December 2006: European Day of Disabled People.

The petition itself states:

"We believe that there should be a clear Biomedical-Science Based Healthcare Policy for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis in the UK and Clinical Guidance that recognises the multi-system complexity and profoundly debilitating effects of M.E."


It is possible to complete the petition online, and there are also paper versions that can be downloaded and distributed to GP surgeries, hospital, libraries... anywhere, really.

If you’d like to sign the petition, or to find out more, please click here.

Take Care,

Jo
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