Stanford researchers have identified specific neurons in the amygdala which produce the unpleasantness which makes pain sensations so intolerable. They're now searching for ways to turn off those neurons and relieve the hurt for people in chronic pain. .
Studies indicate that the nasal congestion and mid-facial pain found in the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is probably not due to inflammation or mast cell activation but instead is probably caused by small nerve fiber problems and dysautonomia.
How close are we to understanding chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) when we can accurately predict how the greatest stressor of all – exercise – affects ME/CFS patients’ physiology? Nothing, after all, whacks a person with ME/CFS like exercise....
The failure of the BACE drugs has some drug companies looking for ways to reduce neuroinflammation - which appears to be present in chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia
The damage to the small nerve fibers in the skin and eyes of people with fibromyalgia has long been assumed to be caused some process in the body. Recent studies, though, suggest that, surprisingly enough, the brain could be trying to protect itself by eliminating nerve fibers in the body.
Dr. Michael Moskowitz used the principle of neuroplasticity to rewire the brain and turn down his 13 year raging and out of control pain response. Then he turned to Jan - a nurse with such structural damage to her back that surgeons would not operate...
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