Nov 20, 2023

Informing patients about potential side effects of pain treatment is a requirement that protects patients and aids decision making, but it increases the likelihood of unwanted nocebo side effects. If ...

Nov 13, 2023

Individuals vary significantly in their pain sensitivity, with contributions from the brain, genes, and psychological factors. However, a multidimensional model integrating these factors is lacking du...

Nov 13, 2023

Both autonomic nervous system dysfunction and immune system activation are characteristic of chronic pain after limb injuries. Cholinergic agonists reduce immune system activation in many settings. We...

Nov 06, 2023

The aim of our work is to assess the prevalence of probable major depressive disorder and/or probable generalized anxiety disorder (pMDD/pGAD) in patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis ...

Nov 06, 2023

The current study aims to characterize brain morphology of pain as reported by small fiber neuropathy (SFN) patients with or without a gain-of-function variant involving the SCN9A gene and compare the...

Oct 30, 2023

We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the efficacy of non-conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (ncs-DMARD) strategies on patients with rheumatoid arthr...

Oct 30, 2023

People with chronic pain tend to interpret ambiguous information as health-related, more so than people without. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) ex...

Oct 30, 2023

Neuropathic pain after peripheral nerve injury is a multidimensional experience that includes sensory, affective, and cognitive components that interact with one another. Hypoexcitation of the medial ...

Oct 23, 2023

Tarlov cysts are known contributors to radiculopathy but are often misdiagnosed and mismanaged due to a paucity of information. This is particularly true of cervical spine Tarlov cysts since most atte...

Oct 23, 2023

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by a deficiency in regulatory T cells (Treg), which play a crucial role in immune regulation. While conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic dr...

Oct 23, 2023

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disorder that results in the deterioration of joint cartilage and bone. Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) has been pinpointed as a key factor in RA-relate...

Oct 23, 2023

Cannabidiol (CBD) attracts considerable attention for promoting good health and treating various conditions, predominantly pain, often in breach of advertising rules. Examination of available CBD prod...

Oct 16, 2023

This study aims to evaluate the effect of the transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block on the blood cells and the inflammatory markers neutrophil- to- lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet- to- lymphocyte r...

Oct 16, 2023

Objective The daily step count is associated with mortality in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). However, the factors associated with this phenomenon are not yet fully understood. We therefore clar...

Oct 16, 2023

To quantify risks associated with drug utilization in the real world for the treatment of chronic pain (CP), an index called the Medication Quantification Scale (MQS) was developed in 1992 in the Unit...

Oct 16, 2023

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a severe neuropathic facial pain disorder, often caused by vascular or neuronal compression of the trigeminal nerve. In such cases, microvascular decompression (MVD) surge...

Oct 09, 2023

Skin decontamination of Chemical Biological Radioactive and Nuclear (CBRN) materials involves the timely and effective removal of the contaminants from the skin surface. The current work evaluated Ful...

Oct 09, 2023

Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia and mild cognitive impairment are characterised by impaired cognition accompanied by neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) relating to mood, including depression, anxiety, ...

Oct 09, 2023

Wnt5a is a member of the Wnt protein family, which acts on classical or multiple non-classical Wnt signaling pathways by binding to different receptors. The expression regulation and signal transducti...

Oct 09, 2023

Deactivation of medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has been broadly reported in both neuropathic pain models and human chronic pain patients. Several cellular mechanisms may contribute to the inhibition ...