Janet Dafoe has been doing an informative series of videos on the Open Medicine Foundation’s work. Her patient-centered approach – she often interrupts a researcher engaging in “research speak” to clarify in simple English what’s going on...
It’s clear that glial cells – immune cells found in the brain and the spinal cord – play an important role in producing chronic pain and neuro-inflammation. Glial cell activation in the brain is often measured using the levels of a benzodiazepine...
The Pain Brain Sometimes you’ve got to ask wonder where is it going to stop with fibromyalgia (FM) and the brain? Reductions in the volume of “gray matter” (the neuronal cell bodies and glial cells as opposed to the long nerve fibers) have been found...
“The present case highlights the marked improvement of FM symptoms in a patient who has been resistant to a wide variety of treatments for over seven years.“ Kararizou et. al. 2013 The Big Three (Lyrica, Cymbalta, Savella) Ghetto in Fibromyalgia Don’t get stuck...
SENSORY GATING PART V – VALIDATION? A – Sensory Gating Deficits and Neuroinflammation in ME/CFS – A Testable Hypothesis Part I – Sensory Gating – Set out a hypothesis that, if tested, ME/CFS patients (in particular those patients that would describe...
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