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Predictors for pain after breast cancer surgery unveiled

Researchers have identified that chronic preoperative pain, axillary surgery, and psychologic robustness significantly predict acute pain outcomes after breast cancer surgery.

5 Sep 2012

NeuroSigma's external Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation system awarded CE Certification

NeuroSigma, Inc., a Los Angeles-based medical device company, announced today that it received CE Certification for its external Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation (eTNS) system, called the Monarch, for the adjunctive treatment of epilepsy and major depressive disorder, for adults and children 9 years and older.

5 Sep 2012

Newly discovered neuronal pathway plays key role in controlling bone density during adolescence

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered that a neuronal pathway -- part of the autonomic nervous system -- reaches the bones and participates in the control of bone development.

5 Sep 2012

NIH funded researchers identify and explore different aspects of anesthesia

Anesthesia helps many of us during our lives, whether we need a local painkiller at the dentist, numbing eye drops for laser vision correction or general anesthesia for major surgery. But even though anesthetics have been used in many procedures for more than 150 years, doctors and scientists still don't know exactly how these medicines work in the body.

5 Sep 2012

Zalicus commences first of two Z160 Phase 2a clinical studies for chronic neuropathic pain

Zalicus Inc., a biopharmaceutical company that discovers and develops novel treatments for patients suffering from pain and immuno-inflammatory diseases, today announced that it has initiated the first of two Phase 2a clinical studies with Z160, its first-in-class, oral, state-dependent, selective N-type calcium channel blocker for the treatment of chronic neuropathic pain indications.

5 Sep 2012

Posterior medial cortex more specifically engaged in recall or imagination

You already know it's hard to balance your checkbook while simultaneously reflecting on your past. Now, investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine - having done the equivalent of wire-tapping a hard-to-reach region of the brain - can tell us how this impasse arises.

4 Sep 2012

Potassium-channel autoimmunity linked to chronic pain

A substantial proportion of patients with voltage-gated potassium channel-complex autoimmunity experience chronic idiopathic pain, although the specific antigenic complex associated with pain remains to be determined, conclude US scientists.

3 Sep 2012

ImThera Medical announces results from targeted hypoglossal neurostimulation study on OSA

ImThera Medical, Inc. today announced that results from the first single-center study of targeted hypoglossal neurostimulation (THN) for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) will appear in an upcoming print edition of the European Respiratory Journal.

3 Sep 2012

Heavy alcohol use rewires brain circuitry and increases risk of PTSD

Doctors have long recognized a link between alcoholism and anxiety disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Those who drink heavily are at increased risk for traumatic events like car accidents and domestic violence, but that only partially explains the connection. New research using mice reveals heavy alcohol use actually rewires brain circuitry, making it harder for alcoholics to recover psychologically following a traumatic experience.

3 Sep 2012

Scientists restore sense of smell in mice through gene therapy

Scientists have restored the sense of smell in mice through gene therapy for the first time -- a hopeful sign for people who can't smell anything from birth or lose it due to disease.

3 Sep 2012

Glaucoma and cell death: an interview with Dr. Vivek Gupta

Glaucoma is normally caused by increased pressure of aqueous humour fluid in the eye. A defining feature of this disease is destruction of a particular type of cells in the retina called retinal ganglion cells and excavation of the optic disc region.

31 Aug 2012

FDA approves Ironwood’s LINZESS to treat irritable bowel syndrome with constipation

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Forest Laboratories, Inc. announced today that LINZESS (linaclotide) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a once-daily treatment for adult men and women suffering from irritable bowel syndrome with constipation (IBS-C) or chronic idiopathic constipation (CIC).

31 Aug 2012

PD0325901 drug may hold potential to prevent neurofibromatosis 1 in children

A drug originally developed to stop cancerous tumors may hold the potential to prevent abnormal brain cell growth and learning disabilities in some children, if they can be diagnosed early enough, a new animal study suggests.

31 Aug 2012

Chronic nerve pain: an interview with Professor Sally Lawson

Chronic nerve pain results from pathological changes within a nerve that appear to be self-sustaining and thus the pain continues for a long time.

30 Aug 2012

Headphones can damage coating of nerve cells and lead to temporary deafness

Turning the volume up too high on your headphones can damage the coating of nerve cells, leading to temporary deafness; scientists from the University of Leicester have shown for the first time.

30 Aug 2012

RegeneRx’s Thymosin Beta 4 can promote recovery of diabetic peripheral neuropathy

RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. reports that U.S. researchers have found that Thymosin Beta 4 (Tβ4) promotes statistically significant recovery of peripheral neuropathy in type II diabetic mice including recovery of neurovascular dysfunction in the sciatic nerve and recovery of neurological function.

30 Aug 2012

Johns Hopkins team creates synthetic protein that can help locate tumors

Johns Hopkins researchers have created a synthetic protein that, when activated by ultraviolet light, can guide doctors to places within the body where cancer, arthritis and other serious medical disorders can be detected.

30 Aug 2012

Deep-brain stimulation may stop uncontrollable shaking in patients with Parkinson's

Deep-brain stimulation (DBS) may stop uncontrollable shaking in patients with Parkinson's disease and essential tremor by imposing its own rhythm on the brain, according to two studies published recently by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers in the journal Movement Disorders.

29 Aug 2012

Acorda’s GGF2 can improve erectile function after cavernous nerve damage

Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. announced data from a preclinical study showed that treatment with Glial Growth Factor 2 (GGF2) improved erectile function in an animal model following a cavernous nerve (CN) injury, a common complication of prostate surgery.

29 Aug 2012

Leg compressions after stroke appear to trigger natural protective mechanisms that reduce damage

Successive, vigorous bouts of leg compressions following a stroke appear to trigger natural protective mechanisms that reduce damage, researchers report.

28 Aug 2012

Nerve News and Research

Predictors for pain after breast cancer surgery unveiled

NeuroSigma's external Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation system awarded CE Certification

Newly discovered neuronal pathway plays key role in controlling bone density during adolescence

NIH funded researchers identify and explore different aspects of anesthesia

Zalicus commences first of two Z160 Phase 2a clinical studies for chronic neuropathic pain

Posterior medial cortex more specifically engaged in recall or imagination

Potassium-channel autoimmunity linked to chronic pain

ImThera Medical announces results from targeted hypoglossal neurostimulation study on OSA

Heavy alcohol use rewires brain circuitry and increases risk of PTSD

Scientists restore sense of smell in mice through gene therapy

Glaucoma and cell death: an interview with Dr. Vivek Gupta

FDA approves Ironwood’s LINZESS to treat irritable bowel syndrome with constipation

PD0325901 drug may hold potential to prevent neurofibromatosis 1 in children

Chronic nerve pain: an interview with Professor Sally Lawson

Headphones can damage coating of nerve cells and lead to temporary deafness

RegeneRx’s Thymosin Beta 4 can promote recovery of diabetic peripheral neuropathy

Johns Hopkins team creates synthetic protein that can help locate tumors

Deep-brain stimulation may stop uncontrollable shaking in patients with Parkinson's

Acorda’s GGF2 can improve erectile function after cavernous nerve damage

Leg compressions after stroke appear to trigger natural protective mechanisms that reduce damage

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