Here’s an interesting article about a NIH-funded study that’s being done on chronic pain and the brain…
“There may be a high-tech way to teach people to handle chronic pain, scientists report.
(…) In a news release, Mackey says he and his colleagues believe the patients who got real-time brain scans “really learned to control their brain, and, through that, their pain.”
(…) “However, significantly more science and testing must be done before this can be considered a treatment for chronic pain,” Mackey says. [Sean Mackey, MD, PhD, a Stanford assistant professor of anesthesia]”
– Miranda Hitti, High-Tech Brain Images Helps Patients Learn to Handle Pain, WebMD Medical News –
To read the full article (2 pages long), click here!
Claire
Editor of Sleepydust
