Oct 22, 2020

Conditioned pain modulation (CPM) protocols index magnitude of descending pain inhibition. This study evaluated whether degree of CPM, controlling for CPM expectancy confounds, was associated with ana...

Oct 22, 2020

Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is currently a global pandemic that affects patients with other pathologies. Here, we investigated the influence of treatments for osteoporosis and other non-inflamma...

Oct 15, 2020

Opioid use disorders are chronic and relapse is common. Both negative affect and craving have been suggested antecedents of relapse and have been shown to demonstrate within- and between-person variab...

Oct 15, 2020

An epidemic of opioid overdose has spread across North America, with illicit drug-related overdose emerging as a leading cause of death in recent years. Estimates of opioid use disorder (OUD) prevalen...

Oct 15, 2020

This mixed-methods study compared drug use histories between individuals who had a reported non-fatal overdose to individuals who did not and described the overdose risk-management strategies as they ...

Oct 15, 2020

We describe the case of a 38-year-old woman whose headache phenotype transformed from episodic migraine to hemicrania continua (HC) responsive to indomethacin, as expected per diagnostic criteria. Our...

Oct 15, 2020

This study aimed to clarify the relationship between migraine-like headache and ventriculo-arterial coupling after transcatheter closure of the atrial septal defect in children. We hypothesized that m...

Oct 15, 2020

To assess the incidence of postdural puncture headache (PDPH) using 22-gauge atraumatic needle (Sprotte, 22GS) compared with 22-gauge traumatic needle (Quincke, 22GQ).Diagnostic lumbar puncture (dLP) ...

Oct 15, 2020

Children presenting with musculoskeletal pain to pediatric rheumatology clinics are very heterogeneous and on a continuum from those with localized pain to total body pain. Many report intermittent, r...

Oct 15, 2020

The plant Angelica archangelica, owing to its magnificent therapeutic effectiveness in folklore medicine system, has been regarded as an "angel plant." The current investigation was aimed to optimize ...

Oct 15, 2020

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a highly disabling condition characterized by widespread chronic pain. Physical exercise, such as walking, has been recommended as the treatment of choice for FM. However, adheren...

Oct 15, 2020

Peripheral nerve injury (PNI) impacts millions annually, often leaving debilitated patients with minimal repair options to improve functional recovery. Our group has previously developed tissue engine...

Oct 15, 2020

Men and women can exhibit different pain sensitivities and many chronic pain conditions are more prevalent in one sex. Although there is evidence of sex differences in the brain, it is not known wheth...

Oct 15, 2020

Neonatal tissue damage can have long-lasting effects on nociceptive processing in the central nervous system, which may reflect persistent injury-evoked alterations to the normal balance between synap...

Oct 15, 2020

Spinal stiffness and mobility assessments vary between clinical and research settings, potentially hindering the understanding and treatment of low back pain. A total of 71 healthy participants were e...

Oct 15, 2020

Click chemistry is not a single specific reaction, but describes ways of generating products following examples in nature. Click reactions occur in one pot, are not disturbed by water, generate minima...

Oct 15, 2020

Visceral pain is a prevalent symptom of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that can be difficult to treat. Pain and hypersensitivity are mediated by extrinsic primary afferent neurons (ExPANs) that inne...

Oct 15, 2020

The adsorption behavior of the amino acid, glycine (Gly), via the carboxyl, hydroxyl, and amino groups onto the surfaces of AlN and AlN fullerene-like cages were computationally evaluated by the combi...

Oct 15, 2020

Air pollution is an important risk factor for autoimmune diseases, but its association with the recurrence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remains unclear so far. This study aimed to investigate the shor...

Oct 15, 2020

Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is one of the most commonly prescribed immune-suppressants in treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Our previous research showed that HCQ suppressed RA development by inhibiting...