Missing that runner’s high? (Any high at all?) Your living circumstances or the losses you have endured may not be to blame. The loss of those good feelings may not be due to depression. Physiology could be behind all of them. “Highs” or good...
Everyone comes to a disease with their own preconceptions. That fact never seemed more true than in this Canadian fibromyalgia brain study. The researchers asked a good question, got a good answer and then made an interesting interpretation. Although the...
“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...
A Central Nervous System Hypothesis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome “… neurophysiological and neuroimaging studies in combination with subjective or a newly developed objective evaluation method of chronic fatigue have begun to clarify the mechanisms underlying...
Recently Dr. Lucinda Bateman proposed that neuroinflammation in the middle part of the brain could explain many, if not all, of the symptoms found in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. With that intriguing hypothesis in mind, we take a look back at a fascinating MRI study by...
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...